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desirous of gaining the good opinion of all 

 strangers, and particularly English who visit 

 their country. 



On consulting with Mr. Blunt, the consul, he 

 readily agreed to second our designs, and accord- 

 ingly, making use of our names as two English 

 officers who had seen, and who had been much 

 disgusted with, the cruelties practised on these 

 Albanians, and it being a proceeding so totally 

 unknown in civilized countries, he stated to the 

 pasha, that unless the men were immediately 

 taken down, he should consider it his duty, as the 

 matter had been brought officially under his 

 notice by us, two travellers, who had accidentally 

 been eye-witnesses of the treatment to which 

 these men had been subjected, to send a Tatar 

 forthwith to Mustafa Pasha, the vizier of Janina, 

 with a report of the whole affair. The effect of 

 this was astounding. The kaimakan ordered the 

 men to be immediately taken down, and we had 

 the satisfaction of hearing that our exertions had 

 been successful, and that, for once in our lives, 

 our prying propensities had been productive of 

 more good than the mere gratification of an im- 

 pertinent curiosity. The dragoman, whom the 



