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where the owner kept a collection of such rari- 
ties. Presently we met a second female, nearly 
of the same age, and similarly habited ; who 
addressed the first, laughing, and then literally 
seized one of us by the arm, bidding her com- 
panion secure the other : and in this manner 
we were hurried into a crowded assembly, 
where many of the inhabitants had been col- 
lected for a regular ball. The dancing instantly 
began ; and being welcomed with loud cheers 
into the midst of the party, there was no alter- 
native but to give up all thoughts, for the rest 
of the evening, of returning to our caique, and 
contribute to the hilarity of those by whom we 
had been thus hospitably inveigled. Our con- 
ductors proved to be the two daughters of the 
'Idiovgo%evog t who thus honourably entertained, 
after the manner of his forefathers, two private 
strangers, whom he was never likely to see 
again, and from whom he could reap no possible 
advantage. Every species of Greek dance was 
exhibited for the amusement of his guests; ] 
from the bounding Movo^o^o? or hornpipe, and 
the A(%ogo$ or rigadoon 1 , to the more stately 
measures of the orbicular brawl*, and the 
(1) SeeZte Guy's Letters on Greece, vol.1, p. 149. Land. 1781. 
(2) See p. 155 of this volume. 
