86 ALBANIANS TROUBLESOME. 



developed. His high cheek-bones, prominent 

 and well-formed nose, and remarkable nearness 

 of his eyes to each other, give his comitenance a 

 bold, but, at the same time, an intensely cunning 

 and piercing expression ; whilst his forced and un- 

 natural smile, intended to be persuasive, conveys 

 rather the idea of an authoritative demand, and is 

 more calculated to excite repugnance and disgust, 

 than feelings of good-will and compassion. His 

 great breadth of chest and muscular limbs shew 

 him at once capable of that vigorous exertion to 

 which the rigidity of his sinews clearly indicates 

 he has been accustomed. A dirty, ragged dress, 

 badly covering a more dirty, and dark skin, com- 

 pletes the picture of the man, who, armed to the 

 teeth with a musket, a pair of pistols, and a yata- 

 ghan, disputes the passage with me, and demands 

 authoritatively, rather then begs, what he is evi- 

 dently determined, either by fair or foul means, 

 to obtain, 



I instinctively stop short, wondering whether 

 the rencontre is a friendly or a hostile one. He 

 vociferates loudly, " Baruti, baruti."^ At each 

 repetition of the word, his countenance assumes a 

 more disagreeable and repulsive aspect. In my 



* Gunpowder. 



