130 MODES OF TRAVELLING. 



days, whilst the regular time of performing that 

 distance with post-horses is one hundred and 

 ninety hours. 



Colonel Dundas, it is said, rode with a tatar 

 from Belgrade to Constantinople, a distance of 

 upwards of six hundred miles, in five days. This 

 is a great feat, but time is no great object to a 

 person travelling for amusement; and I know, 

 from my own experience, that from twelve to six- 

 teen hours' riding is quite sufficient for a day's 

 work. 



In either case the surrigee rides in front, lead- 

 ing the baggage-horse, the others follow, and if 

 there is a tatar, he brings up the rear, whipping, 

 hallooing, and cheering them on, keeping them 

 at a much faster pace than the surrigee alone 

 would do. 



From Janina to Mezzovo is the remains of a 

 very good road of the paved kind I have just de- 

 scribed, which was constructed by Ali Pasha, 

 but is now in a very decayed state. I counted 

 no less than four very well-built, strong, and 

 well-engineered bridges over mountain torrents, 

 which had entirely gone to ruin, but, with proper 

 care, might have been easily kept in order. 



