98 ISLAND OF NAXOS. 
CHAP. jfrcktfxiagG ; from the beginning of the thir- 
teenth century, when the Emperor Henry gave 
this title to Marco Sanudo, until the expulsion 
by the Turks, under Selim the Second, of Giacomo 
Crispo, the twenty-first and last duke. It is 
owing to this circumstance that the Venetian 
costume still exists among the Latin ladies. 
That of the Greek women is very remarkable ; 
but it has been already described and accurately 
represented in Toumefoffs Travels 1 . We were 
unable to resist the hospitable importunity with 
which some of the inhabitants invited us into 
their dwellings ; and might have sacrificed the 
whole of our time in going from house to house, 
to be regaled with lemonade and sweetmeats. 
Some of the ladies were very anxious to be 
informed how the women of our island passed 
their time ; and whether the rich dresses of the 
Naocian women accorded with the habits of 
English females of distinction. We told them 
that English ladies of elevated rank aimed only 
at simplicity in their dress; that, in our com- 
mercial country, wealth was very often on the 
side of low birth; and, consequently, that 
expensive dresses and costly ornaments, so far 
from being the distinguishing characteristics of 
(l) Tournef. Voy. du Levant, Lett.V. torn. I. p. 228. 
