. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. y paved and is inclosed within rough it are a few trees, an acacia or two, a wild pepper-tree, and one gigantic cypress. From a branch nearthe entrance a big bell hung by a chain. But theonly sound of bells came to me from without thewalls, where some hidden goats were moving to apasture. Fragments of broken columns and two orthree sarcophagi lay on the hot ground at my my right, close to the church, a flight of very oldmarble steps led to a rustic loggia with wooden sup-ports, full of red geraniums and the flowers of aplan
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. y paved and is inclosed within rough it are a few trees, an acacia or two, a wild pepper-tree, and one gigantic cypress. From a branch nearthe entrance a big bell hung by a chain. But theonly sound of bells came to me from without thewalls, where some hidden goats were moving to apasture. Fragments of broken columns and two orthree sarcophagi lay on the hot ground at my my right, close to the church, a flight of very oldmarble steps led to a rustic loggia with wooden sup-ports, full of red geraniums and the flowers of aplant like a very small convolvulus. From the log-gia, which fronted her abiding-place, a cheerful,kindly-faced woman came down and let me into thechurch and left me with two companions, a blackkitten playing with a bee under the gilded cupola. The church, like almost all the Byzantine churchesI saw in Greece, is very small, but it is tremendouslysolid and has a tall belfry. The exterior, stained byweather, is now a sort of earthy yellow; the cupola ii8. > < o
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