184 CATERINA. 



CHAPTER IX. 



CATERINA — KIDROS — ADVANTAGES OF BEING A CHRISTIAN — 

 CONDUCT OF TURKS TOWARDS GREEKS RIDING IN THE WA- 

 TER ** DESIRABLE RESIDENCE AT A WATERING-PLACE " 



REACH DRY LAND — COWS NEVER MILKED — KHAN — ARRIVE 

 ■ AT THESSALONICA GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON TRAVEL- 

 LING IN ALBANIA. 



We were eight hours from Platamona to Cate- 

 rina, at which latter place we dined, and, having 

 procured post-horses, proceeded to Kidros, ano- 

 ther five hours' ride, where, there being no khan, 

 we slept in a most comfortable and clean Greek 

 cottage. 



Caterina I find I have put down in my note-book 

 as a Turkish village. The " Modern Traveller " 

 says that it is inhabited chiefly by Greeks. One 

 or the other must be wrong, but I am very much 

 disposed to adhere to my own opinion, because I 

 was always guided by the number of mosques I 

 noticed on my approach to any town or village, 

 and then one question to the surrigee sufficed, 

 which I noted down accordingly. The houses 



