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SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
CYPRUS AS I SAW IT IN 1879
page 167 View PDF version of this page évacuation by the garrison would hardly have entitl the standard-bearer to a Victoria Cross ; however may have otherwise distinguished himself, which e tailed post-mortem honours, perhaps by skinning al'
the gallant Venetian commandant Bragadino, who
skin, stuffed with straw, was taken in triumph to C d
stantinople hanging at the yard-arm of the victorio general's ship.
Quitting the mosque, we continued along the aquedu always upon the same sandy heights, which gradually i creased, until we arrived at a position about 200 yar' from a windmill. This formed a prominent object at t back of the large village of Varoschia, situated upo the slope beneath facing the sea, about a quarter Γ a mile distant. I selected the highest position f? a camp ; this was close to the aqueduct and abo' 600 yards 4 from the entrance of the fortress, counted the embrasures of six guns that could hav been brought to bear exactly upon our tent, but at tl same time I remarked that we commanded the low portion of the fortress, and could fire into the rear the batteries upon the sea-wall within the water-ga at a most destructive range. This position woul require a detached fort with a line of works along tH
heights flanked by a small fort at the extremitj
Three detached forts upon as many points which no'
exist would render Famagousta impregnable, shoul
the present works be repaired, and improved by
slight modifications.
I had been through the fortifications upon a form
occasion, when I had the advantage of Captain Ingl
the chief commissioner's guidance, but they are
extensive and of such exceeding interest that ma
days might be expended in a study of the details.
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