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FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES, 
CHAP, a melancholy memento of our having for ever 
, quitted the fine scenery of Greece. 
Winter of 
the Archi- 
pelago. 
At Develi we slept in a small but good Khaut 
and more comfortably than usual. Some 
suspicious looking fellows met us this day on 
horseback, and the whole district was full of 
alarm. No other conversation took place 
among the Tahtars who arrived at the Khan, 
than that which related to the disordered state 
of the country : and each new-comer seemed to 
vie with his predecessor in fearful tales of 
banditti, and of the ravages committed by 
hordes of insurgents. The rainy season had 
now set in ; the only winter known upon the 
shores of the Archipelago. Snow falls some- 
times in considerable quantity during the month 
