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roation. His wife was a native of Paros. We chap. 
found their dwelling so agreeable an asylum, , ITI ‘ . 
after our long Scythian penance, that we re- 
mained there nearly a week. A wooden balcony, 
or covered gallery, into which their principal 
apartment opened, gave us a constant view of 
the Bosporus, with all the opposite Asiatic coast, 
and the numerous vessels at this season of the 
year constantly passing to and fro. As the table 
of our host was free to every comer, we dined 
w ith people from almost all parts of Greece 
and Asia Minor: their conversation, as they all 
spoke the Italian language, was intelligible and 
interesting. The natives of Cephalonia, a sturdy 
and athletic race, those of the Morea, of the 
elands of the Archipelago, of Candia, the southern 
coast of the Black Sea, Trehisond, Amasara, and 
Constantinople, amused us by the singularity of 
their dress, as well as by their conversation. 
The house of Keridki, for such was the name 
of our host, w r as a sort of rendezvous, where 
they all met once in a year, in their voyage to 
and from Taganrog ’. His windows were full 
of books, printed at Venice, in the modern Greek 
language. His boys, during evening, read to 
him the popular poem of Erotocritus ; the Life 
(3) Mr. Heber't maimer of writing this word has been uniformly 
adopted throughout the present edition. 
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