160 LARISSA. 



was completed, orders were sent from Constanti- 

 nople, that it should be instantly demolished. 



On a sudden, we saw in the distance the mina- 

 rets of the Turkish town of Larissa, or Jenitcher, 

 the appearance of which with its mosques and large 

 burial-grounds is remarkably striking. Jenitcher 

 is the Turkish name for Larissa, and I should 

 observe that every town or village has two names, 

 viz. the Greek name, which is generally the 

 classical one, and another given it by the Turks. 



We soon saw that the inhabitants of Larissa 

 are mostly Turks, and if we had failed to observe 

 this, we should have been soon reminded of it by 

 the hooting of a pack of Turkish raggamuffins of 

 boys, who began as soon as they saw us, giving us 

 a liberal allowance of not very complimentary 

 epithets, of the meanings of which, except we 

 inferred them from the tones of voice in which 

 they were delivered, we were happily in utter 

 ignorance. 



We took no notice of them, and proceeded 

 peacefully tothekhans, which we found to be per- 

 fectly horrible j but observing, by great good fortune, 

 a sort of cafe, we asked and obtained a room. 



