Near the school is the church of St. Therapia, where is an interesting Greek inscription which has been pubhshed in Bockh's Corpus.[38] It relates to the restoration of some political exiles to Mytilene, which took place by command of Alexander the Great, shortly before his death. The Mytilenasans had made an alliance vntli him after the battle of the Granicus, but had afterwards been compelled by the generals of Darius to receive a Persian garrison, which was finally driven out by Hegelochos, B.C. 332.
VI.
Mytilene, June 20, 1852.
The Turks have just got through their great annual
fast the Ramazan; not, however, without one of the
breaches of the peace which usually occur in this
period, when the Mussulman, out of humour from
his long and painful abstinence from food and tobacco, has his sufferings aggravated by seeing the
Giaour in the daily enjoyment of these luxuries.
Hence a desire on the part of the Turk to break
the Giaonr's head, which is not unfrequently put in
execution; and there is an annual renewal of these
feuds, as in the faction-fights of an Irish fair. A
case of this kind has just come before me, in which
an Ionian, having been beat and maltreated by some
Turks, I had to apply to the Pasha for redress, by
whom the matter was referred to the Mejlis, or local
tribunal. This is a mixed court, composed of Mussulmans and Christian subjects of the Porte. The
