THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

232 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
Greece, it was impossible for them to negotiate with
a Government terrorised by
armed factions. Sir
Richard Church, who had meanwhile also arrived,
added his representations to those of the admiral.
Photomaras, who had had rather the worst of the
bombardment, made a virtue of necessity, and yielded
his stronghold to the Government. Grivas, however,
still held out, and refused to evacuate Palamidi, except
for payment of a million piastres; and, since no
one had the power to force him, he remained for the
time master of the situation.
Meanwhile, after five months of inactivity Ibrahim
had, on the 18th of April, once more taken the field,
and marched northwards into Elis. For three weeks
he was detained before the castle
of Klemutsi, into
which Sissinis had hastily thrown himself on the news
of the Egyptian advance ;
but, at the end of the third
week, want of water compelled the garrison to capitulate,
and the Egyptians continued their march to
Rhium. Ibrahim, who had hitherto raged like a lion,
now changed his policy, and began to play the fox.
Everywhere he treated the peasantry with the greatest
forbearance, leaving them their seed corn, and paying
them for all his provender. This new and unlookedfor
generosity bore fruit; and whole districts, weary
of the homeless struggle, sent in their submission, and