. 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 . s. attack. Bragadino said he had none, where-upon the Turk accused him falsely of havingmurdered them while negotiations for asurrender were proceeding, and commandinghis soldiers to fall on them, murdered hisbodyguard, and submitted him and hiscaptains to most awful torture and insultsbefore finally putting them to death
. 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 . s. attack. Bragadino said he had none, where-upon the Turk accused him falsely of havingmurdered them while negotiations for asurrender were proceeding, and commandinghis soldiers to fall on them, murdered hisbodyguard, and submitted him and hiscaptains to most awful torture and insultsbefore finally putting them to death. MarkAntonio Bragadino was flayed alive, and hisskin taken to Constantinople. Thus fellFamagusta, and with it all Cyprus into thehand of the Turk, who for almost exactlythree centuries ruled it as ill as only theTurk can. Under Turkish rule, Cyprus fellto its lowest ebb, and is only now, sincethe British occupation in 1878, beginning toslowly revive again, and were il not for theannual tribute which is paid to Turkey, andwhich hangs like a millstone round its neck,it would be well on the way to equal, if noteclipse, its former prosperity. As an instance of the wealth of the islandin bygone times, one. church, that of and Paul, which, being further removed 60. Famagusta and Salamis. from the effects of the bombardment, andhaving suffered less from earthquakes, is themost complete now standing, is said to havebeen built as a thankoffering by a Greekmerchant out of the proceeds of a singlevoyage to Syria. It is, I am sorry to say,used as a grain store, a desecration which,under a Christian government, should not beallowed. Many of the other partially ruined churchesboth here and in Nicosia have been dese-crated by being put to uses for which theywere never intended, and though the Turksare to blame for this, now that the island isonce more restored to a Christian power, itis only right that their founders, who wereChristians, should be respected in theirmonuments. The g
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