194 ARRIVE AT SALONICA. 



The next morning a ride of two hours brought us 

 to Salonica, where we estabhshed ourselves in a 

 very good lodging, which Mr. Blunt, the consul, 

 had kindly procured for us. 



Thus ended the equestrian part of my journey, 

 which was the most exciting and enjoyable excur- 

 sion I had ever made in my life. No accident 

 had happened to any of us ; we had met with no 

 difficulties of any consequence ; and the gloomy 

 prognostications of our friends at Corfu, that we 

 should find our throats cut some morning, or that 

 we should be shot through the head from behind 

 a rock, for the sake of pillaging us of the money 

 we carried with us, had not been fulfilled. We 

 had both worn our uniforms, and Captain Spence, 

 in addition to his sword, carried a brace of very 

 small pistols. I do not, however, think it is of 

 much use, in an excursion of this kind, to carry 

 fire-arms, because an Albanian, if determined to 

 commit a robbery, will not hesitate to commence 

 by shooting the unsuspecting traveller from behhid 

 a rock, more particularly if he thinks he is armed. 

 They are determined fellows, too, and not likely 

 to be scared away by the appearance of fire-arms, 

 and more disposed to rob an armed person than 



