CHAPTER VII.

A Maltese Fishing Hamlet.--Old Fort Chambray.--A Grotto shorn of Poetic Adornment.--The "Azure Window."--Bay of Scilendi.-- Pirates' Caves.--Prehistoric Bones and Skeletons.--The Vast Changes of Land and Sea.--Suez Canal.--Geological Matters.-- Native Race of Arabic Descent.--Curious Stone Mortars.-- Primitive Artillery.--Maltese Fungus.--Springtime.--Riches of the Harvest.--Origin of the Island of Gozo. 115