428 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP. Governor, to whom he had made application, 
- v~> sent orders to the gate, desiring to see us. We 
begged to decline this honour, pleading our 
fatigue and indisposition as an apology for not 
waiting upon him; but sent the Tchohndar, as 
our representative. Ibrahim, having put on 
his fur pelisse, and a fine tall calpack with a 
turban of white muslin, looked like a Fizir, 
and quite as respectable as any Pasha of three 
tails throughout the Grand Signiors dominions. 
When we arrived at the Consul's house, we 
found sitting in a little hot close room smelling 
most unpleasantly of stale tobacco fumes, a 
short corpulent man about fifty years of age, 
who began talking to us very loud, as people 
often do with foreigners, believing them to be 
deaf: he announced himself to us as our host; 
and, from the appearance of everything around 
him, we expected indifferent accommodation. 
House of j n t jjj g however, we were mistaken : we were 
the Consul. 
shewn to some rooms lately whitewashed; the 
chambers of the Consul's house, as usual, 
surrounding a court, and communicating with 
each other by means of a gallery. In these 
rooms there was not a single article of fur- 
niture; but they were clean, and we were able 
to spread our matrasses upon the floor; and 
soon found ourselves comfortably lodged in as 
