SHOOTING IN ALBANIA. 63 



nor did I ever hear of shots being exchanged 

 but on the occasion of Prince Pierre Napoleon's 

 wounding the two Albanians, as I have already 

 mentioned. 



Now a cry of terror is heard. It is one of the 

 Greek sailors, who shouts out that the Albanians 

 are coming, and, frightened out of his wits, keeps 

 as near the body of the party as he can ; or he 

 has perhaps seen an Albanian dog or two, fine 

 fellows, larger than Newfoundlands, legitimate 

 descendants of the celebrated Molossian dog of 

 old, meditating an attack upon the spaniels. The 

 Ionian Greeks have a most holy dread of Alba- 

 nians, as well as of their dogs. Perhaps they 

 have good reason to fear them, because the inha- 

 bitants of this part of Albania are at present 

 little better than semi-barbarians, and most out- 

 rageous acts of murder and piracy are occasionally 

 committed by them on the peaceful inhabitants 

 of the Ionian Islands."^ The attacks of these dogs 

 are at times disagreeable, but it is always easy to 

 pariy them and keep them off with the muzzle of 

 the gun, or by taking up a stone and threatening 



* See the account already given of a daring act of this nature, 

 p. 49. 



