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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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o reach itsshelter, thoroughly tired out as I was and absolutelywringing wet with perspiration, a fruit of the labours ofthat interminable walk. Little expeditions of this sortteach us that we are not so young as once we were.Still I enjoyed our abortive duck-hunt. My nephew, fired by the sight or rather the sound ofmore wild-fowl than he had ever dreamt of, announcedhis intention of being back at the place by the firststreak of dawn to catch the birds as they passed fromthe marshes out to sea. I congratulated him upon hissuperb energy, but declined to share the adventure, fore-seeing in the depths of my experience as in a magiccrystal exactly what would happen. It did happen.About an hour after we had finished breakfast on thefollowing morning, two hot and weary young men ap-peared carrying guns and cartridges, but nothing else.They had risen a little too late, the duck were up beforethem and they reached the distant ridge just in time tosee the last flock of geese vanishing seaward.
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Desdemonas Tower, Famagusta It i 11 1..1E? ™ 1 1 ^* 1 mm *^ K; tf ,;:.v -■ -f Ruins of Ancient Church, Famagusta FAMAGUSTA 153 The rains had departed for the present and the daywas lovely, with so clear an air that every little peakand pinnacle of the mountains seemed close at hand. Itwas with great regret that on so fair a morning we badefarewell to our hosts and started for Famagusta. Ishould have liked to stay longer at Acheritou. The placehas many charms, not the least of which is its solitude. The tower, where according to ancient traditionDesdemona was actually stifled by Othello, is an odd placefor picnics, yet thither on our arrival we were escortedthrough the ancient gates of Famagusta. Indeed thefeast was spread exactly where the poor victim lived anddied, that is, if ever she existed beyond the echoes ofromance. In the Venetian days Famagusta, which is said to bebuilt upon the site of the ancient Arsinoe, was a greatcommercial port. Now its harbour is choked and,princip

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