14 ENTER JANINA. 



good-looking. She was riding on a donkey, 

 and attended by only one female, an old woman 

 on foot, probably her mother, who walked by 

 her side. The bridegroom, a man of perhaps 

 five and twenty, came and kissed our hands, and 

 we wished him good luck. His friends were all 

 in their holiday costume, and the whole proces- 

 sion, divested of the disagreeable impression it 

 had first occasioned in us, was really most pic- 

 turesque, and a pleasing sight. 



We reached Janina very late at night, after 

 having been on horseback about sixteen hours. 

 In tolerable weather we ought to have performed 

 the distance in twelve hours ; but the roads were 

 very heavy, and the rains had caused the rivers 

 to swell so as to occasion us some trouble in 

 fording them. We had entered the town, and 

 were wending our way in a most peaceable man- 

 ner towards the house of one of our guides, who 

 had offered us lodging for the night, in order that 

 we might not take up our abode in the common 

 khan, when I (who was leading, and on foot to 

 keep myself warm, as the rain was falHng in tor- 

 rents) was most disagreeably surprised at finding 

 a bayonet close to my breast, and a fellow talking 



