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On the wall facing the door, and cut in plain letters a foot high, two words in Greek confronted me "A tomb?" I asked. "Yes, and a kinsman's; for the Stephanopouli were of blood the emperors did not disdain to mate with. In the last rally the Turks had much ado with them as leaders of the Moreote tribes around Maina, and north along Taygetus to Sparta.
But time is rolling on ten years have elapsed since King Otho first stepped on the Hellenic soil the heroes of the war are sinking into the grave Miaulis, the best of the brave Zaimi, the sagacious timid Moreote noble Kolocotroni, the sturdy strewd old klephtic chieftain; these three representatives and leaders of numerous classes of their countrymen, now sleep in an honoured grave, and their followers no longer form a majority in the land.
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