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CHAP, not so well acquainted with the latter; but have 
in. 
reason to believe that they also have been 
injuriously treated in the accounts published of 
them from the hear-say statements of the Turks 
and Greeks. With regard to the Albanians, it 
was often our good fortune, in our subsequent 
journeys, to prefer a night's lodging in their 
cottages to the less cleanly accommodation of 
more stately dwellings: and this brief allusion to 
them has been now made, rather by anticipation, 
that the Reader, finding hereafter an account of 
them very different from the notions generally 
entertained of this people, may not be induced 
to attribute to first impressions a description of 
their manners which has been the result of 
repeated experience. 
The next morning, we hoisted sail as the sun 
was rising in great splendour above the moun- 
tains; but the wind blew in gusts, and we made 
little progress. At one time, it came with such 
sudden violence down the side of a high 
lit sont naturellement brares, d^terminez, et infatigables, grands 
Toleurs, et justement dans la terre fermedeGr^ce ce que lesMagnottes 
ont sur mer." Voyage d'Attiknes, ffc. par le S T . de la Guilletiere, p. 88. 
h Paris, 1675. 
