New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-03

mOLIl3iDe UnSu slAfSst tStifo VI StSOH
to be stuck against the sAeer walls Of roeh. On
expressing my delight At resiDg such fgns Of ps-
tent labor, Francois who shares the usual Greek
prejudice against the Msipotes, answered: " But
al this il the work of the women. The men are
lazy yagsbords VITO ait al day in the villages, and
smoAe paper cigars. Tie country IS too poor 70
support its population, and you Will find SSrs and
smJ rpa fsl of MKno.e pOr.ers." There may be
20 ne truth in this accusation, bot it is exaggerated
At sunset, af-er climbing a rocky staircase, We
reached little platform between tho opposing
capes of Tay eetus, whence We saw both the Lsco-
nian and Nleesenian Gulf eth more dreary land
scape lay before us and there were no Signs OF
Tzimoya. The dusk feu, we di.mounted and walked
behind our spent horses, and 90 two hour, passed
away Francois heaped anathemas upon the head
Of his friend In Mara:bonis. &" The stupid beast y
be exclaimed be told US il was only four hours
10 Tzimoys and We have already been siI upon the
road" gave him . cigar, the moral effect Of
which was soon inside manifest. "After al, he
added. with q milder voice, between the whifs,
'DemetH meant well enough and If he was mis-
taken about the distance. it is perhaps not his
fault" so, Francois" remarked, "you find
that smoking improves Jour temper" "Ah, yes"
be answered, my body is 70 blame for all the sins
ever committed. ! can tra:e every one to the
fact of my havirg had tobacco, or not enough to
eat, or too much to drink" At last we came upon
olive groves, elimmeriDg in the moonlight like the
CHESTS Of trees, and then the scattered towers OF
Tzimoys. bad neglected 10 procure letters from
DR.. Kalopothakes in Athens to his relatives here,
and Francois had but one acquaintance, whom he
had not heard of for fourteen years; SO We were
doubtful whether should obtain quarters for the
night. Reaching little open place, however,
where some men were assembled We asked whether
sny one would receive US into bis house. There
upon stepped forth msn with instant and cordial
sssent-snd TO our wonder be proved to De, not
only the Old friend Of Francois but one Of the rea
tiyes Of my friend, the Doctor In FIVE minu.eswe
were installed in the clean and comfortable abode
of bis Holiness, the Bishop, who was absent, and
f., as he set about preparing one of bis marvellous
soups whispered to me: "Thisis what the Turks
call destiny, and ma }oi! they are right. An hour
ago l wa, on the brink of despair, aud now the
gates of Parsdfe are opened
In the morning we visited the other members Of
the house of Kalopothakes, and were very cOurte-
ously received The people collected TO stare at
us, and pack Of boys tramped At our heels but
their manners were entirely kind and friendly.
Here the Slavonc element predoninsted there being
few Greek faces except among the women. The
pame Of the place has recently been changed to
Areopois though / cannot fad that aoy ancient
city of that name ever existed here. As we start
ed in the morning on way up the western base
of the Tayg ygetus. fierce looking palksr in fusta
nella and scarlet drawers came toward us, jumping
over the stone fences of the gardens. He shook
hands with us, scanned US from hesd to foot and
then, turning to the Tzmovites who were escorting
us, asked WHO are these" - They are English
men-trsveers," was the answer. You will 20 to
yi.ylo: that is my town." said be 10 me-" eeh.ts
sgeian :" (may you have health y and forthwith
strobe away. He was the chief of Yityo, which
is only about three miles north of Tzlmoya, al
though We were two hours on toe way, 80 terrific
is the mountain road.
Vityo is built on the brow of q precipice, more
than thousand feet above the sea. Our road,
winding back and forth along the face Of the rock,
was like path made by the Internal powers over
the mountains which guarded Eden. Far up, ap-
parently trembling in the air. 50 If giddy with their
position, the tOwer.dwellings Of the town oyerhung
US, but the sheer yellow rocks piled upon each
other like huge steps, were draped with all manner
Of wild vines, flowers and ivy, and every narrow
shelf between was 3 garden Of velvet coil, out Of
which grew olive and fig trees of enormous size.
The people at work in these gardens were all armed.
They wore costume something Ike that of the
Cretans, ard the stamp ofancient Greece was upon
their faces. 4 handsome, fierce boy, who was
l.aDDg over the edge Of rock above the road,
looked NE full in the face, and asked with sort OF
savage suspicion, What you want here" The
town was crowded with idlers, with knives in their
belts and cigars in their mouths. Some twenty
girls, who came down from the mountains, each
with donkey load of furze upon ber back, resem-
bled antique goddesses in a men;al disguise. No
dirt or labor could conceal their symmetry and the
barbsrism of q thousand years had not destroyed
the type of their ancient race.
There is a curious story connected with Vitylo.
About hundred and fifty years ago, say the people,
emigration from Main. into Corsica was frequent;
among others, the family of KaiOmiris, OF KalOme-
roS both names sre mentioned) from Yitylo, who,
soon after their settlement in Corsica translated
their name into ltalsn-B0Sapdrte. From this fam
ily came Napoleon, who was therefore of Msinote,
or ancient Spartan blood. Pietro Mayromakhalis,
Il is said, when he visited Napoleon 8. Trieste,
claimed him as fellow-countryman OR tae faith Of
This story. The Manotes implicitly believe il: the
emigration at the time mentioned is matter of his
tory and the fact that the name of Bonapsrte pre-
vous,y existed in Italy, is no proof that the Coral