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INDEX. Α. ACORNS, 488 ; coffee made from, 489 Adelphe mountain, 60 Agriculture, 27, 28, 73, 110, III, 122, 162, 194, 203, 207, 213, 223, 224, 293. 407, 438, 469 Agricultural bank and locust fund, 390 Agricultural implements of Cyprus, 27 Agriculturists, 28 Ague, 106 Akrotiri, peninsular, 259 Alliance, Anglo-Turkish, 443 Amara, author's servant, 18 Ancient jetty at Famagousta, 155 Ancient ruins, 118 Ancient waterworks, 74 ; aqueducts, 244. 253 Animals in Limasol, statistics of, 406 Animals, taxes on, 386, 387 Antiquities of Cyprus, 54 (see also Cesnola) Aqueduct from Arpera to Larnaca, 22; subterranean, to Larnaca, 34 ; making, 35 ; British authorities propose to substitute iron pipes for, 36 ; at Kythrea, 72 ; at Kuklia, 90 ; at Famagousta, 150 Aqueducts, ancient, 244, 253 Archbishopric of Cyprus, 416 Arodes, a Turkish village, 234 Arpera, water supplied from springs near, 7 ; springs and the Larnaca water supply, 361 Arshia, 88 Artillery shell-fire unknown in early days, 61 Asbestos, 465 Aspropotamo, the river, 232 B. BAFFO, 218, 237 ; estimate of revenue and expenditure for the district for 1879-80, 483 ; silk cultivation of, 483 ; wild olive-trees plentiful at, 46 Baffo gate, Letkosia, 61. (For Baffo, see also Paphos) Bathing, 93, 228 Bazaar at Larnaca, 9, 10; at Ktima, 236 Beccaficos, species of finch, 488 Bee-hives, 431 Beggars, 124, 215 Bellapais, monastery of, 174, 189, 193 Bell-tent, sleeping arrangements, 25 Berengaria, her marriage to Richard I . at Limasol, 263 Biddulph, General, High Commissioner of Lefkosia, 63 ; improvements made by, 63, 456 Birds, 82, 91, 104, 113, 117, 121, 127, 200, 222, 227, 249, 251, 367, 485, 488 Birds, migratory, 485, 488 Birds of prey and their food, 32 Blind beggars, 124, 215 Boots of the Cypriotes, 33 Box (tree), its suggested introduction into Cyprus, 340 Bragadino, the Venetian commandant of Famagousta, 150, 263, 265 British establishments, estimate of expenditure for, 479 Buffavento, 174, 189, 191, 194, 199 Buffavento, Castle of, 59, 82 Buildings to be constructed in 1S79-S0, 481 Bustards, 485 C CAMELS, 90 Camp of 20th Regiment at Mattini visited by author, 50

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