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of Lambro Veicos with pride, the graves of KaraTasio, at Lepanto, and of Gatzo, at Atalante, are not less honoured or less appreciated;-they contain the remains of those wild and daring spirits at whose call the half of Macedon rose to arms.

The case of the Macedonians differs from that of the Suliotes in one very essential point. The former served their country by sea as well as by land, and without being islanders or accustomed to sea-faring life, their long boats and light mysticoes gave them, in some respects, the command over the waters of the Ægian, and for a while, rendered them the scourge of the Mediterranean. The coursaires of Greece were by no means so patriotic as to be blind to the charms of booty, or so in love with liberty as to hate a prize; and there is something wild as well as romantic in such enterprises as the capture of Grabousa, in Crete, and the siege of Beyroot, in Syria; and we are the more interested in these miseries of the times inasmuch as the evils which beset the commerce of Europe offered a better argument for the interference of the Christian potentates than all the sufferings of Greece, or the higher motives which philanthropy or justice could urge.

After the establishment of peace, the Macedonians were induced to settle at Atalante, and in lieu of the home they lost, and the services they rendered to the cause of the nation, the government consented to remunerate them with a portion of those

lands which they had dyed with the blood of their comrades. The amount of land, when compared with the services rendered, was at best but a trifle; still to the poor and the needy it was a great deal, and had it been given promptly, it might have done something towards the object for which it was intended; but the fulfilment of the promise was deferred from day to day, and from week to week. Twelve long years have already passed, and the promised land is not yet measured! Is it wonderful that the veterans for whom it was intended should be driven to despair? Their case is one of unmingled injustice; but who is to be blamed for it? The nation?—it has no voice. His Majesty's ministers?-they are not responsible! The king?

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And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?"

In the course of the evening we were favoured with a visit from a chief of Kassandra, whom I had seen on a former occasion at Athens, and who was as good a subject for the pencil of the artist as any of his wild compatriots. His athletic form was set in bold relief by the glare of the fire near which he was seated, and the features of his manly countenance became more and more animated as he passed from the common topics of conversation to the stirring events of the last revolution. The hero of his theme and imagination was the cele

brated Karatasio.* In connexion with the heroic achievements of this chief, he gave us an account of the battle he fought against the Arabs of Ibrahim, near Navarino; and as the narrator was one of the actors in the drama, he gave the most graphic and authentic description we had as yet heard of it. The moving masses of the Arabs-the impatient Greeks, and the chief, whom he likened to a lion that had lashed himself into a rage, were all placed before us;-we almost saw them and heard them; but at the moment when he was to throw them into deadly conflict, the door opened, and a luckless visitor put an end to the narrative and our pleasure.

* Karatasio is combined of the Turkish epithet Kara-black and the Greek proper name Tasio. The Black or Dark Tasio was very fair, and the epithet is descriptive of his character rather than his complexion.

CHAPTER XXIV.

MARTINO-ITS KALIVIA: RETURN TO ATHENS.

LEAVING Atalante, we entered once more upon its naked, but rich plain, and continued upon it till we came to the vineyards and the saline springs, at the south-east corner of it. Beyond the springs, which are about an hour's ride from the town, and which are so copious as to turn a number of mills, the face of the country began to assume the same naked and barren appearance which we noticed all along the coast, and which, with a few exceptions, may be said to be the prevailing characteristic of the whole eastern shores of the frith. The only

object of interest after leaving the springs was Proskyna-the first Albanian village in this part of the country-where we saw all the life and the beauty of the village by the side of the village fountain.

Two hours to the south of Proskyna we came to Martino, which is remarkable for its wealthy inhabitants, and interesting as having been the scene of a battle, where, in 1828 the Greeks, who were under the command of Bassos, gained a great advantage over the Turks, who had to con

tend against the inclemency of the weather as well as the mountainous nature of the ground. We found the surrounding country exceedingly rough, and the people of the village equally rough and uninviting. Even the little Albanians who, at the request of the Demark, had brought us some refreshments, looked as cautious and as wary as the young savages of the American forests.

After leaving Martino we met with nothing interesting till we came-in about two hours-to that narrow and rocky region which separates Lake Copais from the Straits of Euboea. The nature of the ground was such, that at first we could see neither the lake nor the sea; but the shafts of Crates, which were intended to communicate with the subterranean passage of the waters, engaged our attention, and admonished us of our approach to Lake Copais. The shafts, or perpendicular excavations into the rock, are very remarkable, and while we stood upon the brim of one of them, which had been lately cleared of its rubbish, and which, with an opening of six feet square, had a depth of ninety-six French metres, we were equally surprised with the magnitude and the boldness of an enterprise which, even in its present unfinished and abandoned state, is a matter of wonder.

We had scarcely done with the examination of the shafts when the public road brought us to a point which commanded a beautiful and extensive view of the lake; but the face of Copais was so al

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