152 LEBADEA. 
CHAP, liable to exception, and to error: other travellers 
<_^^ ^ may collect examples of the Romaic and Arnaout 
poetry, seeming rather to prove that a martial 
spirit exists among the Greeks, and a disposition 
towards gallantry among the Albanians'. One 
of these 'Yo.'^co^q] entertained us, during dinner, 
every day that we remained in Lebad£a. 
When the meal is over, a girl sweeps the carpet ; 
and the guests are then marshalled, with the 
utmost attention to the laws of precedence, in 
Ceremony rcgular ordcr upon the divan ; the master and 
observed in . /• i i i • 
holding a mistrcss 01 the house bemg seated at the upper 
end of the couch, and the rest of the party form- 
ing two hues, one on either side ; each person 
being stationed according to his rank. The 
(I) See, for examples, the famous Greek war-son^ Aivrt iraThs ru, 
'ZXXri,u,, as it has been beautifully translated by Lord Byron, {Poems 
printed at the end of '' Childe Harold's Pilgrimage " No. viii. p. 183. 
LonJ. 1812.) Also two popular choral songs in the Albanian or Arnaout 
dialect of the lllyric, in the Notes to " Childe Harold," p. 133.— 
However, the stanzas taken from different^/ioweje songs, p. 97, breathe 
all the martial spirit of the ballads that we heard among the Arnaouts ,■ 
particularly the tenth, where the poet, with all the fire of his own 
genius, has transfused into his lines the most genuine character of his 
original sources ; 
" Dark Muchtar his son to the Danube is sped. 
Let the yellow-haired Giaours view his horse-fail with dread; 
When his Delhis come dashing in blood o'er the banks. 
How few shall escape from the Muscovite ranks." 
See " Childe Harold," p. 100. Land. 1812. 
