Cyprus: Historical and Descriptive: From the Earliest Times to the Present DayR. Worthington, 1878 - 324 páginas |
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... Thousand Girls - A romantic Thief -Prison Life - Stalwart Monks - Turkish Women - Miserable Huts- Approach to Paphos - Ktima - Advent of Venus . . 130 CHAPTER XVII . THE TEMPLE OF VENUS . Bishop of Baffo - View of the Ruins - Gigantic ...
... Thousand Girls - A romantic Thief -Prison Life - Stalwart Monks - Turkish Women - Miserable Huts- Approach to Paphos - Ktima - Advent of Venus . . 130 CHAPTER XVII . THE TEMPLE OF VENUS . Bishop of Baffo - View of the Ruins - Gigantic ...
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... were trilling their sweetest notes . Cyprus , I must here observe , is very bountifully supplied with birds . I was told that many thousand larks were offered in the market - place of Larnaka . The eggs CHAPTER II ATHIENU.
... were trilling their sweetest notes . Cyprus , I must here observe , is very bountifully supplied with birds . I was told that many thousand larks were offered in the market - place of Larnaka . The eggs CHAPTER II ATHIENU.
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... thousand different sorts of plants . The forest growth is more especially luxuriant . According to Herr Unger , the " Pinus maritima , " in Cyprus , covers the hills and mountain regions to the height of 4000 feet , and one of the ...
... thousand different sorts of plants . The forest growth is more especially luxuriant . According to Herr Unger , the " Pinus maritima , " in Cyprus , covers the hills and mountain regions to the height of 4000 feet , and one of the ...
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... thousand Turks remained to keep possession , whilst the rest of the army marched on to Famagusta . Nikosia was in the hands of the Mussulmans , and the last Christian city in the East entirely destroyed . Enormous booty ' comprising an ...
... thousand Turks remained to keep possession , whilst the rest of the army marched on to Famagusta . Nikosia was in the hands of the Mussulmans , and the last Christian city in the East entirely destroyed . Enormous booty ' comprising an ...
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... thousand feet high , and that they had no guide to assist me . Their awe- struck manner whilst speaking of such an attempt led me to suppose that they fancied the ruins were infested by evil spirits . They , however , informed me that ...
... thousand feet high , and that they had no guide to assist me . Their awe- struck manner whilst speaking of such an attempt led me to suppose that they fancied the ruins were infested by evil spirits . They , however , informed me that ...
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