PREFACE, 



During a residence of nearly six years at Corfu, 

 I was enabled, through the kindness of Lieut.- 

 General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., on whose 

 military staff I had the honour of holding the post 

 of aide-de-camp, to make two very interesting 

 tours in Albania — a magnificent, but almost un- 

 known country. In the first, I visited Janina, the 

 celebrated but now nearly ruined capital of the 

 renowned Ali Pasha ; and in the second, I pene- 

 trated still further into the interior of the coun- 

 try, and making my way to Thessalonica, passed 

 on to Constantinople, and by the way of the 



