. Travels and researches in Crete. ripod or stand supportinga shallow vessel containing various fruits, with a mys-tical box between the legs beneath it; on the otherside of it stands a naked youth, apparently with anoffering,—the whole having a kind of stage-screen of 46 ARCHITECTURAL FANCY. some drapery festooned behind them; the lettersno AY occur on the floor of the stage. The old Venetian galley-arches at the port are alsoworth a visit as relics of Venices naval glory andpower in the east, although for the most part in ruins,several of them having fallen-in during the earth-quake of 1856,
. Travels and researches in Crete. ripod or stand supportinga shallow vessel containing various fruits, with a mys-tical box between the legs beneath it; on the otherside of it stands a naked youth, apparently with anoffering,—the whole having a kind of stage-screen of 46 ARCHITECTURAL FANCY. some drapery festooned behind them; the lettersno AY occur on the floor of the stage. The old Venetian galley-arches at the port are alsoworth a visit as relics of Venices naval glory andpower in the east, although for the most part in ruins,several of them having fallen-in during the earth-quake of 1856, which did such serious damage tothe buildings within the city. In one of the vaultsthat remain standing, there is a singular fancy of thearchitect who built it, viz. an inverted arch over oneof the side entrances. But the arch bears little of thesuperstructure, so to test the strength and durabilityof the idea—being beneath a well-made archway—and was therefore a mere fancy, as an architecturaldeviation from ordinary 47 CHAPTER V. MAHOMEDANS OF CRETE—GREEK THE COMMON LANGUAGE CLOSE ASSOCIATION OF THE CREEDS ITS NATURAL EFFECTS AN ENLIGHTENED PASHA INTRIGUE AGAINST HIM—OVER-ESTI-MATE OF THE GREEK POPULATION GREEK RISING, AND PER-SECUTION OF THE MAHOMEDANS—THE SFAKIANS THEIR DIALECT—ITS HELLENIC CONNEXION SHOWN BY THE LATECOL. LEAKE. The Mahomedan population of Crete amounts now toabout one-third of the whole, and may be thus reckonedat between sixty and seventy thousand. Many of themare descended from Christian parents, whose forefa-thers, under intimidation, or interest, changed theirreligion in preference to their location and personalprospects, but not their language. Thus Greek is theuniversal tongue of Crete still. Under these circumstances, and from the use of acommon language, social communication between theCretan Christians and Mahomedans is consequentlymore close than in any other part of the Turkish em-pire, intermarriage being not infrequent, i
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