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fastidious if we had i)ee;i dissatisfied on this chap. 
account: as, in addition to our own provisions, ■ . y. > 
of bread and coffee and tea, from Larissa, a 
huge Albanian turkey smoked upon the floor. 
After a plentiful repast, the evening of our 
Christmas-day was spent in comfort and repose. 
Future travellers in Greece will do well to profit 
by our experience, with respect to the Albanian 
peasantry, — a race as distinct as possible from 
all the other inhabitants of the country. We 
never had reason to complain, when we con- 
sented to forego the accommodation offered in 
Greek houses for a night's lodging beneath their 
humbler sheds. The Greeks are, for the most c>^^^^ , 
compared 
part, indolent and profligate, vain, obsequious, "itii 
1 T rriL >J7 • /flianians. 
ostentatious, poor, and dirty. 1 he Albanians are 
industrious, independent, honourable, cleanly, and 
hospitable. They are a hardier and a healthier 
race ; passing their lives, sub dio, either in the 
fields or upon the mountains : their sons possess 
a manlier disposition than the offspring of the 
Greeks, who are always effeminate; and the 
daughters of Albanians are not characterized by women. 
those relaxed habits and that early fading which 
may be observed in the Grecian damsels. A 
girl of Grecian parents scarcely attains her 
twentieth year before she begins to exhibit the 
