. My experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the people, mediæval cities and castles, antiquities and history of the island of Cyprus: to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire . ses a 185 My Experiences of the Island of Cyprus. microscopic harbour and a small square fortbuilt by the Venetians during their occupa-tion of the island, from which runs out aprojecting reef almost submerged, partly-natural, and partly composed of the shape-less debris of former works. In 1391Jacques I. built on this re
. My experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the people, mediæval cities and castles, antiquities and history of the island of Cyprus: to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire . ses a 185 My Experiences of the Island of Cyprus. microscopic harbour and a small square fortbuilt by the Venetians during their occupa-tion of the island, from which runs out aprojecting reef almost submerged, partly-natural, and partly composed of the shape-less debris of former works. In 1391Jacques I. built on this reef a citadel andfort to protect the harbour, but these weredemolished by the Venetians, who erected thepresent existing fort in their place. In the fourteenth century Neo-Paphoswas a town of some importance, when theGenoese, constant enemies of the Kingdomof Cyprus, laid it low in 1316, the crewsof eleven ships of war burning the habita-tions and destroying everything. In 1328 the Venetians obtained a footingin Paphos, by which time it had been raisedfrom its ruins, only to be devastated asecond time by the Genoese forty-five yearslater. In the early part of the fifteenth centuryit was deserted by its inhabitants owing tothe unhealthincss of its surroundings, when 186. Paphos. they moved to higher ground some twomiles inland, where the town of Ktema nowstands. When St. Paul visited the island hewas so badly treated by the inhabitants ofPaphos that he declared them to be theworst men in the world. At Paphos arestanding two columns, once probably theentrance to a temple or part of a colonnade;there is a tradition that Paul was tied tothese columns and beaten, but as there isno evidence in the Acts of the Apostlesin the chapter (xiii.) describing his journeythrough Cyprus, or elsewhere, supportingthis, it is probably a tradition only currentamongst the Christian inhabitants of thisdistrict. The Proconsul, Sergius Paulus, was somoved by the preaching of St. Paul andhis inflicting
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