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Title: A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925
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Publisher: London New York Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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eautiful house which he haspurchased. For generations it had been the abode ofthe British consuls at Larnaca, but was abandoned bythem many years ago. Here in a noble room he has hisunique collection of ancient books written by travellersduring the last five or six centuries, and others dealingwith, or touching on, Cyprus and its affairs. It is fromthese sources that its learned author has compiled thework known as Excerpta Cypria, which consists of transla-tions from their pages, a book invaluable to students, butnow unhappily out of print. I considered myself for-tunate in being able to purchase a set of the sheets atan advanced price in the capital, Nicosia, where it wasprinted. Set upon a wall of the saloon in this house andalthough newly painted, dating from a century and ahalf or more ago, is a fine, carved example of the royalarms of England. This very coat, as Mr. Cobham hasascertained, used to stand over the doors of the oldBritish Consulate during the tenancy of his house by
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O< < < NAPLES TO LARNACA 65 the consuls. When they left it was taken down andvanished, but within the last few years he found it in astable in Larnaca, whence the carving was rescued, re-painted by some craftsman on board an English man-of-war which visited Cyprus, and after a hundred years orso of absence, returned in triumph to its old home. Cyprus is fortunate in possessing in Mr. Cobham anofficial who takes so deep an interest in her history, andspares no expense or pains in attempting its record. Onthe occasion of my visit he spoke to me very sadly of thevandalism which the authorities threaten to commit bythe throwing down of the seaward wall, curtain-wall Ithink it is called, of the ancient, fortified city of Fama-gusta, in order, principally, that the stone and area maybe made use of for the purposes of the railway, which itis proposed to construct between Famagusta and Nicosia.Of this suggested, but as yet happily unaccomplishedcrime, I shall have somet

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