346 APPENDIX. 



the very severe threajts which he, in consequence, held 

 out to the inhabitants of this coast. 



Not long, however, after this first attack, having, as 

 they thought, well watched their opportunity, another, 

 and a far more severe one, took place. 



It was a custom at Paxo, in common with the whole 

 of Greece, though now no longer permitted in the Ionian 

 republic, on the celebration of a marriage, that the 

 friends of both parties should assemble at night, and 

 continue to discharge small-arms ; the noise, therefore, 

 of musketry never caused any alarm, though, in our own 

 more civilized country, it certainly would. This circum- 

 stance, as you wall hereafter see, was in a great measure 

 the cause that the inhabitants were for so considerable 

 a time ignorant of the attack I am about to mention, that 

 the villains had almost time to accomplish their designs. 

 The night I now speak of, was a most lovely evening, 

 such as seldom falls to the lot of any of us, while in this 

 country, to witness, and about half a mile from the town 

 of Gayo lived one of the first families in the island, sup- 

 posed to be very rich, five in number. Signer Bogdano, 

 his wife, two sons, and, I believe, but one man-servant, 

 an Albanian, in the house. This man-servant w^as a Su- 

 iito, a race noted for courage, fidelity, and honesty. The 

 family had not retired to rest more than half an hour, 

 when the servant heard a knock at the outer gate, and 

 upon his going to ascertain the cause, he w^as answered 

 by a plaintive voice, asking for admittance, and stating 

 that he brought a message to his master, from the cap- 

 tain of the port in the town below. The servant, being 

 somewhat suspicious, did not immediately comply with 



