History

05 Apr 1882

Colonel Donisthorpe Donne of the Cyprus Pioneer Corps was riding through the island inspecting the locust traps

 

Colonel Donisthorpe Donne of the Cyprus Pioneer Corps was riding through the island inspecting the locust traps:

I was ordered to Morfu again a few days afterwards on Locust Inspection. After zig zagging across country visiting the different Traps and screens about Gonelli, Yerollako and Akakie we were caught in a regular Cyprus downpour before reaching Morfu, and it rained hard most of the night ‘thru the roof of the old Monastery over our heads being little better than a sieve.