"The resistance offered by the Cretans was so determined that the island was almost depopulated before it could be conquered."

Page 22; Greece under the Romans, Volume 1

The East and the West - Page 49, published 1868:

"... their character, their aspirations, with the mongrel subjects of the Porte, who are [B]the descendants of the Genovese, Venetian or French settlers in the Levant, and how, [U]though they use the Romaic as their vernacular[/U], disdain to be called Greek[/B], but classify themselves, by a religions instand of a national distinction, as Catholics."