clothes. 
4] 2 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP, always fail in the delineation of features ; be- 
« cause nothing but a faithful portrait-painter can 
trace those modifications of the human counte- 
nance which characterise particular regions'. 
On Saturday, December the twenty-sixth, we 
left Katar'ina ; journeying towards the east, 
over a wretched sandy common, covered with 
brakes ^ In the plains near Katar'ina, the 
Arnaut shepherds are seen armed with large 
Shepherds' pistols and poniards. Their dogs make a sin- 
bodyl^" gular appearance, wearing body-clothes j the 
only instance we had ever seen of the same 
kind. The animals under their care, besides 
sheep, were hogs, buffaloes, and oxen. The 
Christian inhabitants of this district complain 
heavily of Turkish oppression : the sight of a 
family stripped of all its property, for no other 
(1) A remarkable proof of this occurs in the magnificent work of 
Mons. de Choiseul. In that work, the dresses worn by the Grecian 
women in the islands of the /Archipelago are faithfully designed ; but 
the females themselves are a\\ Parisian. In English books of voyages 
and travels, the delineation of countenance is even less attended to; 
as in Cook's Voyages, where the inhabitants of the Pacific Ocean were 
represented with Grecian features. With respect to the inhabitants 
of Turkey, the work of Mr. Hobhotise may be mentioned as the only 
publication containing any faithful pictures of the women of the 
country. 
(2) Pteris Aquilina. 
