My fellow-passengers could not at all understand why I was so impatient; for, with their constitutional indolence, they were quite indifferent as to whether they spent their time for a week or a fortnight longer in smoking, sleeping, and idling on board or on shore--whether they were carried to Cyprus or Alexandria.

It was not until the fourth day that we landed at LIMASOL.
This place contains pretty houses, some of which are even provided with slated roofs, and resemble European habitations.

Here, for the first time since my departure from Constantinople, I saw a vehicle; it was not, however, a coach, but simply a wooden two-wheeled cart, and is used to transport stones, earth, and merchandise.

The region around Limasol is barren in the extreme, almost like that of Larnaca, except that the mountains are here much nearer.
We stayed in this port the whole of the day; and now I learnt for the first time that the captain had not put in here so much on account of scarcity of provisions, as because he wanted to take in wine and endeavour to take in passengers.

Of the latter, however, none presented themselves.