tains, in the vale, or the plain,' as the varying feafofts require,
tinder ârbours é t fheds covered With | houghs, tending their
flocks abroad, or milking the ewes and fhe-goats at the fold,
and making cheefe and butter to fupply the city. Inured early
to fatigue and the fun, they are hardy and robuft, é f manly carriage,
very different from that o f the fawning obfequious Greek,
and Of defperate bravery under every difadvantage, when compelled
by neceflity or oppreflioU, to unite and endeavour to
extort iedrefs. Their habit is fimple and fuccindt, reaching to
the knees. They have a national language, ahd are members Of
the Greek communion.
T he Chriftians, both Greeks and Albanians, are more immediately
fûpetîh’tefiâed by tftë Arcbbiïhop, hni b y the iNvo*
Éjpîtrbpî of curators, who are chofen from amofig the pribfcipal
men, arid Venerable for their long Beards. Thèfcf endbavour to
all tlilpUtes, âhd prevent the parties from rècàrrifig to the
fèvere tribunal of the Cadi or Turkifh judge, watching Over
the commonweal, and regulating îts îftïérHaf poKty, Whièh ftfll
retains feme faint and obfcure traces Of the' anfiènt popular
form, though without dignity or importance. The fee was now
peffeffed by Bartholomew, à Walachian, Who had lately pur-
chafèd it at Conftantinople. He was ahfent when we arrived }
but on his Pettirn to Athens, ferit us a prefent of fine fruit and
■ Of honey from M. HymettUs j and cametOvwifffrus at the
convent, -on horieback, attended by a vitger and feme o f his
clergy oft foot. He was a comely and portly man, with a black
thick beard.
A EE a ® i t ion a 1/ ftory was related to us at Smyrna and
afterwards at Athens, to illufferate* the native qufeknefs of appre-
hënfiotb, which, as i f tranfmiffive and the property o f the foil,
is inherited even by the fewer étoffés ‘of the people.' A perfoft
made trial df a poor fhepherd, whom he met with his flock,
demanding, etnro ; xetf ; xetf Tree?; xetf trcira,. From whence ?
and where ? and how ? and how many ? He Was anfwered- without
©ut hefitition, and witlMqual brevity,,
OtoSbi/ios, xcq 7Tiv\ax,e<rmi. From Athens, to I+ivadia, fhyotjore^ and
fvehundred. In the citizens this aptitude not’ being duly cultivated,
inftead o f . producing genius, degenerates .intq^funniijg.
They are juftly reputed, a moft crafty, fubtle, and acute race.
It has been jocofely affirmed, that no Jew can live amqng them,
becaufe he will he’ cpritinually out-witted. They are confcious
o f their fubjeftion to the Turk, and as fupple as depreffed, from
thé mertibry oPtHeblows on the feet and' indignities^ which they
have experienced or feen inflidted, and frqrp the terror of the
pehalty annexed to refiftance, which is the forfeiture^ of the hand
uplifted: but their difpofition, as antiently, is unquiet; their
repofe difturbed 'by factious 'intrigues and private animofities ;
the body politic weakened b y qiyifion,‘_ and often impelled in. a
direction oppofite to its true, intereft. They have
one of which poffeffes afmall colledion of books, and is entitled
to an annual payment from Venice, the endowment of a charitable
Athenian, but the money is not regularly remitted.
C H A P . XXVI.
Care o f the female fex at Athene— Drejs o f the furkifb women
" abroad — O f 'the Greek I— O f the. Albanian — Drefs o f the
Greek at home— Manner o f colouring the fockets o f their, eyes
- - - 'Fbeir education.
T H E liberty of the fair fex at Athens is. almoft equally
abridged by the Turks and Greeks. Their houfes are fecured
With high walls, and the windows turned from the ftreet, and
latticed. or hoarded up, fo as to preclude all intercourfe, even
o f the-eyes. The haram, or apartment of the Turkifli women,
is,not .only impenetrable, but muff not be regarded on the out-
fide with any degree, of attention. T o approach them, when
ibroad, will give offence; and in the town, i f they cannot be
R avoided,