\S ISLAND OF NAXOS. 
CHAP, partly concealing the cothurnus of goat's hair 
, v . < upon their legs. They cover their head with a 
red scull-cap, which is manufactured at Venice 1 . 
Reckoning their goats and sheep together, these 
independent shepherds have five or six hundred 
animals in each flock. They shear their sheep 
twice a year; putting the rams to the ewes in 
May, and removing them when the latter begin 
to lamb. They speak the modern Greek language; 
and perhaps recruit their numbers from the race 
of Albanians which is scattered over all Greece. 
They told us that they made three or four 
(l) This part of the modern Greek and Albanian dress is the most 
antient : it may be observed upon a bas-relief of the highest anti- 
quity, near to Orcltomenos in Btxotia : it is. still worn throughout 
Albania, and among all the Grecian Isles, as it was by their ancestors, 
and by the Byzantine Emperors. It is common also to the Turks, 
from the Grand Signior to the meanest slave, who wear it beneath the 
turban : and the portrait of Manuel Paleeologtts (exhibiting this cap 
with the addition only of ornamental gems about it) which was en- 
graven as a Vignette to the First Chapter of our Third Volume, 8vo. 
edition, was placed there expressly to shew, that the Turks, in their 
domestic habits (when it is sometimes usual for them, as destitute of 
ceremony, to take off their turban), exhibit a costume precisely corre- 
sponding with the appearance presented by that portrait. Persons 
who have never seen the Turks excepting upon occasions of ceremony, 
when their heads are covered by high calpacks and by turbans, and 
who do not therefore remark the antient and common covering for the 
head which is below these, will not perceive any resemblance between 
the figure of a modern Sultan and the portrait of Manuel Palceologus; 
although nothing can be more striking ; for they have the same 
characteristic aquiline features, the same length of visage and of 
beard, and the same covering of the crown on the head. 
