This was a matter of indifference to those of us who were travelling further, for as we came from Egypt, we should not have been allowed in any case to disembark.

Those who landed here proceeded at once to the quarantine-house.
Syra possesses a fine harbour.

From our vessel we had a view over the whole town and its environs.

An isolated mountain, crowned by a convent and church, the seat of the bishop, rises boldly from the very verge of the shore.

The town winds round this mountain in the form of several wreaths, until it almost reaches the episcopal buildings.