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CHAPTER V. 



DEPARTURE FROM CORFU FOR CONSTANTINOPLE — DELVINO — 



DELA'INAKI ALTERCATION WITH GUIDES ENGLISHMEN 



GENERALLY OBSTINATE ZITZA CALOYERS CONVENTS 



GENERALLY ANECDOTE ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON — 



JANINA BARRACKS LETTER OF CREDIT LAKES OF JANINA 



AND LABCHISTAS. 



Ox the 8th of May, 1839, Captain Spence, of 

 the 60th Rifles, and myself, accompanied by Gio- 

 vanni Zaruchi, whose services I had found so 

 valuable on my former excursion, landed at Santa 

 Quaranta, on the coast of Albania, distant about 

 twenty miles north of the town of Corfu, on our 

 way to Constantinople, by the unfrequented route 

 of Albania, Thessaly, and Macedonia. From 

 having already made one excursion into the 

 interior of this country, I was well aware what we 

 were undertaking, and we both made up our 

 minds to lie hard, ride hard, and live hard ; to 

 take with us a stock of perseverance and equani- 

 mity of temper ; to feel quite happy if we had 

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