A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900 . ve long been worried. Iremember reading, I forget where, in the accounts ofone of the pyramid-building Pharaohs—Chufu, I believe—that he supplied tens of thousands of bunches ofradishes daily to the hundred thousand labourers whowere engaged upon the works. What puzzled me was to know how Chufu providedso enormous and perennial a supply of this radishes of Cyprus solve the problem. One of thesewould be quite enough for any two pyramid-builders. Ita
A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900 . ve long been worried. Iremember reading, I forget where, in the accounts ofone of the pyramid-building Pharaohs—Chufu, I believe—that he supplied tens of thousands of bunches ofradishes daily to the hundred thousand labourers whowere engaged upon the works. What puzzled me was to know how Chufu providedso enormous and perennial a supply of this radishes of Cyprus solve the problem. One of thesewould be quite enough for any two pyramid-builders. Itasted them and they struck me as stringy and flavour-less. Another old friend in a new form was celery tiedin bunches, but such celery! Not an inch of crisp whiteroot about it, nothing but green and leathery head. Itappears in this form because it has been grown upon thetop of the ground like a cabbage. Many people havetried to persuade the intelligent Cypriote to earth uphis celery, but hitherto without result. My fathergrew the herb thus, he answers, and I grow it as myfather did. Doubtless the Phoenicians, ignorant of the. o X in HOO pq 55 <u A CYPRIOTE WEDDING 91 arsenic it is said to contain, liked their celery green, orperhaps it was the Persians. Meat and game, the former marked—so advanced isLimasol—with the municipal stamp for octroi purposes,are also sold here. There on one stall next to a great pileof oranges, lie half-a-dozen woodcock, brown and beautiful,and by them a brace of French partridges now just goingout of season, while further on is a fine hare. On thenext, hanging to hooks, are poor little lambs with theirthroats cut, scarcely bigger than the hare, any of them;and full-grown sheep, some not so large as my fat black -faced lambs at Easter. A little further on we came to acobblers shop, where we inspected the native boots. Theseare made of goatskin and high to the knee, with solescomposed of many thicknesses of leather that must mea-sure an inch
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