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nians would be a signal to the Ionian Government 

 to withdraw the permission, hitherto accorded to 

 officers and others, to shoot on that coast with- 

 out incurring the penalty of quarantine, provided 

 they are attended by a guardian from the Corfu 

 Health-office, obliges us to a passive endurance 

 of these little inconveniences. 



Adventures like these are far from uncom- 

 mon, and I have known an Albanian, on finding 

 his endeavours to extort gunpowder quite fruit- 

 less, run behind the nearest rock, and deliberately 

 level his firelock at the offending Nimrod, whose 

 only resource is to threaten in a similar manner 

 in return, although he does not dare, for fear of 

 spoiling his own and his friends' sport for years 

 to come, to take any more hostile step than 

 stand upon his guard, and ready, in case the 

 Albanian should fire at him, to return the com- 

 pliment. 



I remember once having my gun seized, and be- 

 ing myself fairly made a prisoner by a huge Alba- 

 nian, upwards of six feet high, and with shoulders 

 and a form more than proportionate to his height, 

 who came upon me by surprise from behind, as I 

 was walking up to a bush where my dog was 



