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here and there a white fortress will denote the residence of a chief. A traveller writing in
1858
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considering the difficulties to be surmountedand producing crops that put to shade the
rich plains of Argos and Arcadia; whilst the interesting mountain people exercise the
highland virtues of hospitality and independance to an extent unknown in the low
countries." It has been said that the last traveller who saw Maina while retaining some
r[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]ins of its primitive cateran glories was Lord Carnarvonwho in 1839 explored the
Morea and has left us an extraordinarily interesting account of his journey.
The population of this district continued the worship of the Pagan deities for full five
hundred years after the rest of the Roman Empire had embraced Christianityand they
were not finally converted until the reign of the vigorous Emperor Basil I867-886.
Gibbon described them as "a domestic and perhaps original racewhoin some degree
might derive their blood from the much-injured Helotes."[2] And even yet
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they boast of their descent from the ancient Spartanswhilst the histories of Leonidas and
Lycurguswho fyilai:
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