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Briefly summarized, this novel tells the story of the revolt of 1889 by the suppressed Cretans against their Turkish oppressors, as well as a love intrigue in which the two Cretan hefoes, the captains Michales and Polyxigis, fight with each other and with the noble Turk Nun Bey about the same Circasfian woman.

And below the cross, one on each side, stand two captains, one gray-haired and the other a young man with a broad fez.

August, the royal festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, the captains sat together in a row in the open space of the large pen, while the sheep were being turned on the spits.

When the elders of Crete assembled to deliberate about feedom and death, they made him sit in the center, and when the captains stood up to speak, they looked at him.

Now a gray-beard, the one pleasure remaining to him was to swagger out to an assembly of the captains with his silver pistols, and show the scars on his chest.

Then he began to say the prayers, while the captains rose to their feet and took off their fezzes and headbands.

With angry, squinting eyes, Captain Katsirmas watched the band of captains foaming around him like the sea.

Coolly he looked the captains up and down, and paused for a second at the somber countenance of Captain Michales.

How she would have liked to go with him and to see those fourteen mighty captains like eagles on the cliffs!

The captains thought of their youth, of war, of the groaning men who lay dying, of the women mourning, of the horses whinnying and standing on the field, bloodstained and riderless.

The three captains had curled themselves up, full of drink and food, against the strong trunk of the lemon tree, and were snoring.

The captains of eastern Crete saw the beacons, understood the message and gathered in the sheep pens of old Sefakas.

On the fifteenth of August, the royal festival of the Assumption of the Virgin, the captains sat together in a row in the open space of the large pen, while the sheep were being turned on the spits.

Of the other eleven captains, one was an abbot from the Monastery of Christ the Lord, with blue eyes and a flowing beard.

The captains wagged their heads, and put them together by twos and threes.