226 DELPHI. 
CHAP, poverty-struck village; who, with a wife and 
^ -/ ' many children, living in sickness and in sorrow, 
greeted our coming with that gladness which 
the afflicted feel, when they have some one to 
whom they may relate the story of their woes ; 
even if this be the only consolation they are 
likely to experience. — The Tchohodar was for 
conjuring up a supper, after his usual manner, 
a coup cle baton: but by this time less persuasion 
was necessary to convince him "that a method of 
catering more consonant to Briiish feelings must 
be adopted, if he intended to pursue his jour- 
ney with us any farther ; neither were the 
people of Castri disposed to crouch quite so 
much as usual before every dastardly Turk 
whom they might encounter : they had put to 
death seven domineering Moslems a short time 
before, and had cast them all together into a 
hole which they afterwards closed. We had 
brought with us, bread, honey, rice, and coffee, 
from Lebadta : Antonio filled a pitcher with the 
excellent wine of Parnassus: and making our 
host and his family sit down with us, we were 
presently all feasted, and as merry as if the 
most propitious oracles from the Pythia had 
been vouchsafed to every one of the party. 
In the morning we began a very careful 
