My advice was that, as the matter was an affair between the Cretans of the two religions, it was not advisable for him to identify himself with either party, on which he refused the battalion.

Our route brought us through Murnies, celebrated for its orange groves and for the horrible execution of many Cretans by Mustapha Kiritly in the "great insurrection"that of 1837to punish them for assembling to petition the Sultan for relief.

The reverence of the Cretans for their traditional procedure was such that when the assembly had dissolved, its authority, and that of the persons composing it, lapsed, and the deputies had no right to hope for obedience if they called on the population to rise.

With the rest I provided for the defense of my house, barricaded the windows with mattresses, took another cavass guaranteed as faithful by my old one,Hadji Houssein,put a rifle and a box of cartridges at each window, besides organizing, with Colucci, a strong patrol of Cretans from the refugees in the consulate, to watch the roads, and waited events.

But the evidence was at hand to show that the pasha himself, finding the islanders no less difficult to control for all the concessions made them, had been obliged in the interest of his own quiet and permanence in government to turn the restlessness of the Cretans into sectional conflicts during which they left him in peaceful possession of his pashalik.

But the testiness of the Cretans on the other side developed a collision where none need have occurred.

They seemed even better for the Cretans than annexation to Greece, and I so represented them to Mr. Morris.

We were constantly doing all in our power to lead the Cretans to conciliation and submission, though the hotheads among them were indignant with us.

But the Cretans with one accord called out to them to be of good courage; that they would share every fortune with them.

I do not know what the real influence of Dendrinos had been, for he was a man not to be believed, but we,the Italian, the Greek, and myself,had done everything in our power to keep the Cretans within the legal limits.

Epimenidês lived 289 years, and was adored by the Cretans as one of their "Curetês" or priests of Jove.

But the radical fault of the Hellenes was that they compromised the question by the introduction of the question of annexation, and forced it into the field of international interests, disguising the real causes and justification of the movement, and making it impossible for England consistently with her declared policy to entertain the complaints of the Cretans without also admitting the pretensions of the Hellenes.