{"id":18114,"date":"2012-05-03T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/?p=18114"},"modified":"2012-05-02T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T07:41:33","slug":"saturday-3-may-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/2012\/05\/03\/saturday-3-may-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 3 May 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very fine & pleasant all through.<\/p>\n

But I got little or no sleep, \u2015 at least until 3.30: partly fleas \u2015 partly noises. \u2015 However, at 5.20 \u2015 rose \u2015 & G. had a regular breakfast by 6: & at 6.40 we were off \u2015 Spiro Assoniti preceding as guide. Damp & low grounds \u2015 olive woods with gt. Foots but meager arms, patches of green, \u2015 & myrtle & prunum \u02c7[cistus], & passed-away Asphodel. \u2015 There were semi-dry ditches too & a tortoise or 2. Land & water. We went near Zigon\u00f2 \u2015 a \u03a7\u03b1\u03bb\u03b1\u03c3\u03bc\u03b5\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03a7\u03c9\u03c1\u03b9,1<\/a><\/sup> & by 8 reached S. Matti\u00e0 \u2015 a finely placed village. The Head Police received Burr\u2019s letter joyfully & gave a peasant to guide me, \u2015 I decided first, \u2015 to Panto\u03ba\u03c1\u03b1\u03c4\u1f7d\u03c1\u03b1, \u2015 a monastery high up. A very pretty & hot pull!\u2015 & welcome was a cup of coffee & some rakhi:2<\/a><\/sup> \u2015 after which I drew on a higher front still, \u2015 the view of Lefkimo, Albanian, & other \u2018islands\u2019 \u2015 very beautiful: & opposite \u2015 Fares & St. Angelo &c. We got down to S. Matti\u00e0 at 12 \u2015 & then had eggs & beans at the []: \u2015 & at 1.30 [sit solo] again. The scenery is very beautiful=broken rox \u2015 & superb olives: & so round the S. Matti\u00e0 mountain, to Goudiki,3<\/a><\/sup> or Pala\u03b9\u1f79\u03ba\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf \u2015 a Castle like Bodin or any 12th<\/sup> century gray ivied walls \u2015 but with immense olives about it. I drew on a hill till 3.30 \u2015 the long plain & sea forming a beautiful scene, \u2015 but the vast olives are for studies not sketches \u2015 & I grew disgusted. \u2015 We returned by another route, to the \u03b4\u03b7\u03bc\u03bf\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u03bd4<\/a><\/sup> road near Bragan\u03b9\u1f79\u03c4\u03b9ca,5<\/a><\/sup> \u2015 & about a mile from Strongili I sent forth the S. Matti\u00e0 Guide with 2\/6 \u2015 having given him his dinner also. Lord! [how<\/em>]6<\/a><\/sup> he talked! \u2015 G.\u2019s silent nature is no end of blessing. \u2015 At \u201chome\u201d by 5.<\/p>\n

& at 7.20 am about to dine.<\/p>\n

Which the \u03b3\u03b5\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b17<\/a><\/sup> was surprising \u2015 curry & Ps. G.\u2019s assiduity is untiring.<\/p>\n

Bed at 8.45.<\/p>\n

[Transcribed by Marco Graziosi from Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Eng. 797.3.]<\/span><\/p>\n

  1. Ruined village (NB). Nina adds about \u0396\u03c5\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd\u03cc or \u0396\u03b3\u03bf\u03bd\u03cc\u03c2: \u201cThis is actually quite interesting: It was a medieval village that was abandoned in the mid 18th\/early 19th century, and there are many legends (of the folk-gothic horror kind) as to why — something about a village priest who became a vampire and infected the peasants with a fatal illness in connection to a feud between two rich families. There is no consensus about the real reason, it could be in fact some epidemic.\u201d [↩<\/a>]<\/li>
  2. Raki is a Turkish unsweetened, anise-flavored hard alcoholic drink that is popular in Turkey, Greece, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, and other Balkan countries as an ap\u00e9ritif. [↩<\/a>]<\/li>
  3. This should be Gardikiou, Choris Onoma, Agios Matthaios, in Corfu. [↩<\/a>]<\/li>
  4. Highway (NB). [↩<\/a>]<\/li>
  5. Nina suggests this is Vragkaniotika. [↩<\/a>]<\/li>
  6. Blotted. [↩<\/a>]<\/li>
  7. Dinner (NB). [↩<\/a>]<\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Very fine & pleasant all through. But I got little or no sleep, \u2015 at least until 3.30: partly fleas \u2015 partly noises. \u2015 However, at 5.20 \u2015 rose \u2015 & G. had a regular breakfast by 6: & at 6.40 we were off \u2015 Spiro Assoniti preceding as guide. Damp & low grounds \u2015 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18115,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18114\/revisions\/18115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nonsenselit.org\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}