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This we found to be a very decent lodging-house, 

 called the Cafe Europeo, a very good attempt at a 

 civiHzed inn. It is a sort of eating and drinking 

 shop, with one or two very tolerable rooms, not 

 clean, of course, but a palace compared to the 

 common khans of the country. Here we were 

 soon well lodged, after having taken the precau- 

 tion of getting rid of all the furniture which we 

 found in the room. This was not much, certainly, 

 but in plaguey countries it is desirable to avoid, 

 as much as possible, contact with any thing that 

 can communicate it, such as table-cloths, mat- 

 tresses, (fee. Wooden chairs, mats, and articles 

 of this kind, are harmless, as are likewise articles 

 of food generally, excepting new bread. During 

 our whole journey, I do not think we were ever 

 better lodged than at Larissa. 



Mustafa Pasha being at Larissa, it was neces- 

 sary that our bouyourdi, or passport, should be 

 renewed by his orders, the acting pasha at Janina 

 having had authority only to give us safe conduct 

 as far as the abode of his superior : we accordingly 

 dispatched Giovanni to Signor Samo Kash, the 

 Greek secretary of the pasha, who very soon got 

 us a bouyourdi, which said bouyourdi equally 



