History

28 Σεπ 1878

Esme Scott Stevenson left Alexandria for Cyprus in one of the "Asia Minor" steamers

Esme Scott Stevenson left Alexandria for Cyprus in one of the "Asia Minor" steamers:

My only fellow travellers - if a few French and Greek merchants visiting Larnaca in hope of doing business be excepted - were Mr Hepworth Dixon and two officers of the Royal Engineers, Mr Kitchener and Mr Hippisley, sent out to survey the island by the Foreign Office.