5. They crossed the island from east to west, preaching on their way, and came to _Paphos_ (Acts 13:6), the capital, and residence of the proconsul. This city contained a famous shrine of Venus, to whose worship, with all its immoralities, its people were devoted. There was an old and a new city, of which the former was the one visited by Paul and Barnabas. It is now called _Baffa_. 6. Sailing in a northwesterly direction a distance of 170 miles, they reached Asia Minor, in the province of Pamphylia. Passing by Attalia for the present, they ascended the river Cestrus, and landed at _Perga_ (Acts 13:13), 7-1/2 miles from the sea. This was a Greek city, devoted to the worship of Diana: now in ruins, and called _Eski Kalessi_. Here their young assistant, Mark, left the two missionaries to prosecute the hardest part of the journey without his help. 7. Their next field of labor was _Antioch in Pisidia_, a city east of Ephesus, and northwest of Tarsus, now known as _Yalobatch_. Here Paul preached in the synagogue a discourse reported more at length than any other in his ministry, and here a church was founded. (Acts 13:14-52.) 8. Driven out of Antioch by the persecution of the Jews, they went on 60 miles eastward to _Iconium_, a large city, still in existence as _Konieh_, and in the Middle Ages the capital of a powerful Mohammedan kingdom. This region, in the apostle's time, was independent of the Roman empire. (Acts 14:1-5.) 9. Again compelled to endure persecution, they traveled to _Lystra_, a heathen city in the district of Lycaonia, where a miracle wrought by Paul led the superstitious people to offer worship to the two apostles as the gods Jupiter and Mercury (in Greek, Zeus and Hermes). There is reason to suppose that Lystra was at the place now known as _Bin bir Kilisseh_, "the thousand and one churches," a mass of ruins in the _Kara Dagh_, or Black Mountain. [Illustration: MAP OF THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS.] 10. Paul having been stoned at Lystra, the apostles went on to _Derbe_, 20 miles distant, but in the same province, where they were suffered to labor in peace. It is supposed to be represented by the modern village of _Divle_. This marked the furthest place reached by the evangelists. They were now quite near the pass in Mount Taurus, known as the Cilician Gates, and could easily have reached Tarsus, and thence taken a short voyage home. [Illustration: REVIEW CHART OF PAUL'S FIRST JOURNEY.]