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Musical soirées were the most usual entertainments of society, and must have constituted a salutary recreation in such com with their kind in a way only comparable with Pitcairn Islanders of the present day. NOTES:- Levant Merchants in Cyprus, 241 Our The English houses at Larnaca were -Chapman: Tyson, 251. Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents. Notes. LEVANT MERCHANTS IN CYPRUS: (See ante, p. 222.) We have lost the most wonderful opportunity of hearing a vivid account of the Levant merchants and their Consuls through the failure of Oliver Goldsmith to obtain the post of doctor to the Factory at Aleppo in 1761; his place was supplied by Dr. Russell. Both in Cyprus and Aleppo the circumstances of life were the same at this period. The working hours of the day were passed in the counting-house, and depended very much on the arrival or departure of ships. Long hours of idleness are often referred to in the correspondence, and Dr. Russell states that the greatest drawback to a residence in the Levant was the difficulty of finding occupation. In the older letters from Aleppo the characteristic English love of vocal and instrumental music is constantly evinced sleeping purposes during the heat of summer. The houses seem to have been well furnished-much better than in the earlier days of the Aleppo Colony-perhaps on account of the English in Cyprus leading a more decidedly family life. When persons were sleeping on the outside of the house, beds were fitted with curtains-probably mosquito curtains—a thing which the natives seem not to have made use of at that time. The tables of the Europeans in the Levant were well supplied with provisions of all kinds. The cooks, as well as many of the other servants, were Armenians who had learnt French and English cookery. Cyprus has always been famous for its wine— abundant, but of very inferior quality-and the English seem to have drunk it; their favourite beverage was, however, “punch,' and the other Europeans seem to have acquired this taste also. John Heyman's reference (Travels,' 1720) to the famous Cyprus wine is curious: he mentions an Englishman who was in the habit of sending wine (probably Commanderia) to England for the benefit of the sea voyage, receiving it back again at Larnaca. The merchants were great sportsmen-as Englishmen have always been-but sport was sometimes beset with a danger which might not have been anticipated by any one unaccustomed to the peculiarities of Levantine life. Many cases occurred of gentlemen out fowling finding themselves surrounded by pirates, who, attracted by the report of their "birding pieces," made an attack upon them, after they had satisfied themselves the gentlemen's guns were empty. Fortunately this is a thing of the past in Cyprus. Hare-hunting was a favourite sport of the English. It was usually carried on by a company of twenty or more horsemen, one of whom carried a falcon. The greyhounds |