92 T H E B E S. 
CHAP, in the commodities they offered for sale. They 
V -^,-' . appeared in all the colours of their extraordi- 
nary dresses, supposed to be of the same 
nature with that which was worn by the antient 
Macedonians. It has been already represented 
in a former part of these Travels ' ; and its 
resemblance to the habits of the Cells has also 
been pointed out^ They brought to this 
market, oxen, fish, butcher's meat, and wood. 
We entered into a place where they had 
assembled to eat their food; not as at an 
ordinary, but rather an u4lbanian pic-nic, to 
which every individual contributed some- 
thing- that he had conveyed with him from his 
own home. This food, packed in a cleanly 
manner by their women, consisted principally 
of heavy corn-cakes baked in wood embers, 
and of dried fruit. Game abounds in the 
country ; but they have a strange prejudice, 
which, as it also characterized the antient 
inhabitants of Greece^, and is still universal, 
(1) Seethe Plate facing p. 762, Vol. III. of the Quarto Edition 
of these Travels, ^/crfc. 1814. — Their military dress, with all its 
embroidery, is however much better represented by a coloured plate iu 
Mr. Hobhouse's Travels ( facing jt. 133. Lond. 1813), which exhibits an 
Albanian warrior to the life : and for a full account of this remarkable 
I>eople, the Reader is particularly referred to Mr. Hubhouse's. Work. 
(2) See Vol. VI. p. 586, of the Octavo Edition,- and the Note from 
Lord Byron's " Childe Harolde." . 
(3) See what is said of the Ssra-vav aiiToiv that was odious to DianUf 
hy ^schjlus ; ver. 112 of thQ Agamemnon. 
