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154 LEBADEA. 
CHAP, people more inflated with a contemptible and 
vulgar pride than the Turks ; and the Greeks, 
Low pride. -^y^jjQ ^rc the most servile imitators of their 
superiors, have borrowed many of these cus- 
Dresses, toms from their lords. Costly furs are much 
esteemed by both, as ornaments of male and 
female attire; that is to say, if they be literally 
costly; as the finest fur that ever was seen 
would lose all its beauty in their eyes if it 
should become cheap. Their dresses are only 
esteemed in proportion to the sum of money 
they cost ; changes depending upon what is 
cz\\q6. fashion being unknown among them. The 
cap of the infant of Logotheti consisted of a mass 
of pearls, so strung as to cover the head ; and it 
was fringed with sequins, and other gold coin, 
among which we noticed some medals 'of the 
latest Christian Emperors, and Ecclesiastical 
coins. The dress worn by his wife was either 
of green velvet or of green satin, laden with a 
coarse and very heavy gold lace ; the shoulders 
and back being otherwise ornamented with grey 
squirrel's fur. There is yet another curious 
Etiquette iustauce of their scrupulous attention to every 
concerning -i i t • • r i mi 
sUppers. possible distmction of precedency. The shppers 
of the superior guests are placed upon the step 
of the divan : those of lower rank, of the unfor- 
tunate, or dependant, are not allowed this 
