Mehmet Pasha, once more attacking Askyfó by Krapi, while Omar's troops and Reschid with his bashi-bazouks passed by the mountains from Kallikrati to Asfendu, and so into Askyfó, had been opposed by Zimbrakaki, Soliotis, and the Sphakiote chiefs for three days, when, finding the defence concentrated at the head of the gorge, he climbed the hills at his right, passed over into Askyfó, took possession of Kares, on the edge of the plain, barricading himself there without attempting to advance further. Coroneos, on his retreat to Askyfó, threw a force of several hundred Sphakiotes and volunteers behind him, and for several days his communications with Canéa and his base at Vryses were cut off, when Reschid succeeded in getting into Askyfó and supplying him with provisions, of which he stood much in need, having left Vryses with six days' rations, and now been twelve days out without further supplies. Zimbrakaki had retired to the heights between Askyfó and Anopolis, followed by Omar's forces, while Reschid occupied the southeastern part of Askyfó, Mehmet being in the northeastern. The indefatigable Coroneos took position at Muri with about 800 men, and thence menaced the communications between the latter chiefs, and so effectually that Mehmet was obliged to evacuate Askyfó, and get back to Vryses, when, falling on the rear of Reschid, Coroneos compelled him to fall back to Kallikrati. The Greek chief then placed himself between Omar and his auxiliaries, and watched both, ready to attack either when the development of their plans should tell him what to do. Omar pushed on to Anopolis, and thence to Aradena, where he was gallantly opposed by a small force of Greek volunteers under Smolenski and Nicolaïdes. The Greeks, attacked in front and on both flanks, while Zimbrakaki, at an hour's journey, remained idle, and Petropoulaki, a league away, guarded an unattacked pass, were forced to fall back, and leave Aradena to the Turkish troops, after a display of courage which called forth the praises of their enemies. But here the defences of nature stopped the invaders. The great stronghold of Sphakia, Samaria, was impregnable from the side of Aradena, the mountains hardly giving place for undisputed passage to pedestrians. The troops were accordingly withdrawn to the sea-side, and as the shore gives no passage, a detachment was carried by ships to the entrance of the gorge of Agios Roumeli. An energetic assault penetrated as far as the village which gives name to this valley, a distance of half a mile, but here the Cretans, concentrating in numbers, and aided by the masses of rock and torrents, stopped all further advance, and the troops were withdrawn; and, their passage through Sphakia to Canéa being barred, they were sent round by sea, leaving the country as hostile as they had found it, but desolated and ravaged as the "_paese guasta_" never had been before. The losses of the army in this campaign had been frightful. The