text:  The Sphakiote tribes in particular who were strong both from their arms and martial temperament and from their habitations among the lofty ridges of the _Aspro-Bouna_ or White Mountains in the south of the island acknowledged at all times but an imperfect allegiance to their Venetian lords: and the acts of fiendish barbarity by which their frequent revolts were chastised can scarcely find a parallel even in the worst horrors of the French Revolution