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honour; they are left below the divan, upon the chap. 
IV. 
lower part of the floor of the apartment, nearer to -' . 
the door. About the time that the tobacco-pipes 
are brought in, female visitants arrive to pay 
their respects to the mistress of the house, who, 
upon their coming, rises, and retires with the 
women present, to receive her guests in another 
apartment. On one of the days that we dined 
here, it being the day of a Greek festival, two 
'Albanians, with their wives and children, came to Albanian. 
visit the archon. These peasants, upon entering 
the room, placed each of them a sack of pro- 
visions in one corner of the apartment, and then 
came forward to salute their landlord. When 
the women advanced, they touched his hand 
only, and then placed their own hands to their 
foreheads, making the sign of the cross, as they 
do in Russia : but the children took his hand and 
kissed it, applying afterwards the back part of 
it to their foreheads. 
The famous AH Pasha had already exacted Joannina. 
tribute from the inhabitants of Lebadea. The 
archon informed us that he had been more than 
once to Joannina, to convey it. He spoke much 
of the riches of Joannina, distant seven days' 
journey, telling us that it contained 7000 houses. 
The mother of his wife was a native of that 
