. The Burton Holmes lectures;. to reap a harvest even from the rocks. This, the last Arcadian scene, completes our second disillusion. We found Sparta a land of milk and honey. We iind Arcadia an alpine wilderness. A tiresome downhill scramble brings us again into apopulated region, before night tall we are comfortably 186 GRECIAN JOURNEYS housed in the picturesque village of Andritzena. The nar-row street, the overhanging eaves of houses sadly out ofplumb, the tiny shops like niches in the walls, the red fezzeson the heads of skirted citizens,—all these things are evi-dences of the recen
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. to reap a harvest even from the rocks. This, the last Arcadian scene, completes our second disillusion. We found Sparta a land of milk and honey. We iind Arcadia an alpine wilderness. A tiresome downhill scramble brings us again into apopulated region, before night tall we are comfortably 186 GRECIAN JOURNEYS housed in the picturesque village of Andritzena. The nar-row street, the overhanging eaves of houses sadly out ofplumb, the tiny shops like niches in the walls, the red fezzeson the heads of skirted citizens,—all these things are evi-dences of the recent presence of a Turkish population,—now, fortunately, gone forever. Here at Andritzena we bid farewell to our Spartan guidesand animals, engaging in their stead another company ofAgoyates and a caravan of ponies for the continuation ofour journey northward. Greece probably has never been likened to Morocco ; yetevery day during the course of our expedition through theinterior of Greece, souvenirs of the land of the African. GRECIAN JOURNEYS 187 sultan were vividly evoked. A longday in the saddle, the crossing ofa river, the Oriental trappingsof the beasts of bur-den, the monoto-nous songs ofthe Agoyat-es, the everbrilliant sun-shine, thesense of infi-nite freedom,— all thesethings carryour thoughtsback to theMoorish Em-pire, whose track- less plains, and bridgelessrivers, and crumbling cities possess so great a charm. But the
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