The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-21
THE EPIRUS OF TO-DAY.
IT'S CHIEF PLACES AND COAST AND
MOUNTAIN ROADS.


tile Forces May Confront Zach other.
Only tho person who has travelled through
the province OF European Turkey officially de-
scribed AS tho vllayet of JanIna can form an
IDEA Of how conservative OF savngcry and OBJ
s~tructive Of progress Turkish rule Is.
Within three days journey from London,
and n few hours steam from Btindisl, lies a
country. Epirus, that Ia little more advanced
than some parts OF central Africa. Yet on all
sides may be seen traces of ancient civilization
and the ruins OF once 1ourishinG towns. indus
try, and agriculture. The absence or roads
and anything like decent lodging have been
obataeiss to travel, and 1t is only In recent
years that the province could BIO traverseu Win
anything like COMPLETE safety.
The country is full OF historic interest," and
poets from Virgil 10 Byron have written ofit,
but what treasures of art or history 1t may
contain cannot be known until the Turk has
Quilted IL, and some more civll!zlnR Govern
mont is In possession. Travellers In Epirus
have the choice OF several points at which to
enter tho country from Europe. From Corfu
n steamer may DO taken to q port to the north
east of Corfu CALLED by the Italians Sanu QUAR-
anti, and By the Greeks AEla Saranda. or the
Holy Forty. From here q road goes by Del
vino. q GRECO Albanian town. past Zitsa. spoken
Of by Byron. to JaninA, tho capital. on the lake
OF the ssme nhmo. AhosheE way II" oiA
the moro interesting. is by sailing boat to ss-
,.d. an tho coast. Immediately oppos,te the
49, ., ,,n5,,r
town OF Corfu. This place Is merelS a ianaihE
place. not far from the mule track from the
old castle of Butrlnto to the Interior.
The first stopping place on the road to ia
nina from Sayada is Philiatss. to which. accord
ing to the Eneid. Eneas carried his father
Anchises on his back froLi the sea. in their
wauderings after the fail Of Troy and his rejec-
It,, 80 ,ho ,,.rtrraso ne Dilo of CARTHAGE.
s'Un y. Observation-Disclosures y,
Trees ana water arc INC recouiihclu"''Uu Va
.h. oorrt-v .,c.nt in isolatea matches. A
tue .unt. 800 ~ aol. - Sar.aa !.
short distance down the coast o"iow SaSaaa ID
81 p..,in cona..ss ot1s7s No m, new north.
tne SIN ~. ill., r,a rn.a
70 Janina from sayada by way OF Philiates
to,,,v. Tho course nj the Ealamas pretty
closely. at varying attitudes. the bed of the
river being deep down In q gorge made by some
.,o., onypIsion NJ n,ture throux h the tum-
ere1' eohFuisioh y i n.'us
bled see OF mountains lying between the coast
and ~Janina.
place. the track traversen ridges Of hills that
rise abruptly across the path. or else along
hundred feet into q chasm below. where a false
etep is the end Of life. Raveni Is a scattering
riilasea; is situated o on q q h 9hs v 9JPe r of nSe si Kapst
rugged mountains and broken crags shat meet
the eye tn every direction. The population Is
sparse. owing to the infsrtility Of the soil aud
the insecurity ot life,
and cultivated spots are passed on the way to
the junction of the discharge If the lake Of
yapina with the ka!amas; from this point to
being cut out of the face OF an almost perpen-
dicuiar clin. presenting, In some parts. turns
places have been cut out OF the cliff. from
which the rerddjfes or muleteers shout warn
lnEs before starting to avoid meetings In the
Intervals. where passing OF turning back is
alike impossible.
of the stream suddenly ends in the plateau. and
looking over the edge one can see. some 800
feet below, the discharge Of the lac Of ia
tho KAtavothea. as the Greeks call It. or under
ground channel that passes under the plateau
for several miles. From hero can be seen the
mountain of the Souliotes. who were only sub
dued by q ruse during the revolt OF the great
Pa a.shh OF Janina: All Of reped ed the old
and Greeks.alike for his resistance To the Turk
in the years before the Greek revolution.
plateau. another view meets the eye. Down In
othe hollow OF the plain below is the blue. clear
Mount Tomaro-. with the picture Jaue city of
Janina. is minarets end church towers stand.
defended by the fortihcations in whose dun
Reons were enacted horrors unsurpassed by
any recorded In history; !anina was the centre
gle fer supremacy that lasted so many years
between the old Pasha Of Janina and his su-
Eernln az Constahtinopie. graphicaIiy Dc
scribed In the writings OF De Pougpeyille. who
epent severe! years there as Frehsh Cohsu4: IL
was from JRnina that All Pasha set out on the
fatal Journey to Constantinople TO make his
submission In person to his sovereign. but all
OF him that ever arrived there Vas his head.
transported IN Q basket 70 eatisty the sultan
that bis dreaded vassai was no mere; JaninA
tsa distinctly Greek town, that under a pro
Eressise and enlightened Government might
become the prosperous centre or an inIelli-
Gent and enternristng people. but under Turk
ish domination is condemned 10 stagnation.
or ate years the road leading across the Pin
Gus Mountains by Metzovo to MGnastir In
Macedonia. has been made practicable for ar
allery and wheeled vehicles: but up Tn twenty
years ago ana less. Wheeled vehicles were I'M
known IN Ep,rps. Tiers Is no record Of any
psrioa a. when. under turkish rule. the oso-
pc OF. Epirus ENJOYED prosperity or we're con-
tented; From the Indus Range to ne Adri
ntlc and from the soyussa TO The CUR OF Aria
the last centuries have only witnessed a series
O, rising. repressed oy SLAUGHTER. with the peo-
pie. creeks: and turks, kept down by h Gov
eminent 81 raolne ani plumber. destroying
oVerv VestaRe OF the ancient prosperity OF the
country. Inc once culL fated helds In the val
leys are now covered with yards deep OF gravel
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