182 ULTRA HIGHLAND COSTUME. 



We had not resumed our journey long before 

 we came to another river, and hearing there were 

 many more which we must cross in our day's 

 journey, we decided on adopting a plan which I 

 strongly recommend to all persons who may meet 

 with similar difficulties in travelling through a 

 wild country with a small allowance of clothes. 

 Sitting in wet clothes is likely to cause rheuma- 

 tism, so, after some deliberation, we came to the 

 conclusion, that in a warm climate like Albania 

 the lower garments, which we usually wear in 

 the civilized part of Europe, ought to be consi- 

 dered as useless incumbrances, and fit only for 

 fashionables who study their personal appear- 

 ance. We therefore (do not blush, gentle reader) 

 established a fashion of our own, and rode icith- 

 out any at all ! By this remarkably simple and 

 ingenious contrivance, for which we took to our- 

 selves a great deal of credit, we preserved a set 

 of dry clothes to put on at the end of our day's 

 ride, and ran no risk of getting rheumatism by 

 keeping on wet ones. We performed a consider- 

 able part of this last part of our journey in this 

 extraordinary costume. What a fine subject for 

 a caricaturist ! At first I was disposed to laugh a 



