| Incidentally, I am a very lucky girl. There was a darling old man who spoke a little English there. He explained the layout of the village to me. He called me click-clack because of the camera sounds and would call me "Click-click, come come" and position me in the cistern depths for the best photos. He was adorable. There were 5,000 Portuguese inhabitants in the 1600's and 1700's- all Christian. Now there are just 2,000 Muslim inhabitants. There was a special jail for the Jewish and Muslim criminals and they had a separate court house, both along the northern border of the island. The cistern is in the grey-brown center of the city. 5,000 people depended on the water reserves here. They used a bucket down the center hole to get the water. It was just rain water. |
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