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ABSTRACT THE article in NATURE, vol. xxiii. p. 525, on Aryan villages and other Asiatic communities reminds me of what I saw in 1843 in the course of a journey through Greece. On St.
George's Day, a high festival with the Greek peasants, when crossing the range of Mount Cithæron between Thebes and Eleusis, I saw my companion, who was about half a mile ahead
surrounded by a number of men, and then pulled from his horse The man we had engaged as interpreter, guide, and protector, the “dragoman,” bolted as a matter of course, thinking we had
fallen upon a nest of brigands; but when I reached the scene of action I was surprised to find that the yelling and uproar heard in the distance were not murderous nor at all malignant, but
purely hilarious. I was dragged from my horse also, and surrounded by about twenty young fellows with shaven heads and long scalp locks, half stripped, half drunk, and very dirty, but
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