organ's work was, perhaps strengthened by her outspoken eulogium.]

[226] {188} [For the Disdar's extortions, see _Travels in Albania_, i.
244.]

[227]
["The poor ...when once abroad,
Grow sick, and damn the climate like a lord."
Pope, _Imit. of Horace_, Ep. 1, lines 159, 160.]

[228] [_Works and Days_, v. 493, _et seq.; Hesiod. Carm._, C.
Goettlingius (1843), p. 215.]

[229] Nonsense; humbug.

[230] {189} [Hobhouse pronounced it to be the Fountain of Ares, the
Paraporti Spring, "which serves to swell the scanty waters of the
Dirce." The Dirce flows on the west; the Ismenus, which forms the
fountain, to the east of Thebes. "The water was tepid, as I found by
bathing in it" (_Travels in Albania_, i. 233; _Handbook for Greece_, p.
703).]

[231] [_Travels in Greece_, ch. lxvii.]

[232] [Gell's _Itinerary of Greece_ (1810), Preface, p. xi.]

[233] {190} [For M. Roque, see _Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem: Oeuvres
Chateaubriand_, Paris, 1837, ii. 258-266.]

[234] {191} [William Eton published (1798-1809) _A Survey of the Turkish
Empire_, in which he advocated the cause of Greek independence. Sonnini
de Manoncourt (1751-1812), another ardent phil-Hellenist, published his
_Voyage en Grece et en Turquie_ in 1801.]

[235] [Cornelius de Pauw (1739-1799), Dutch historian, published, in
1787, _Recherches philosophiques sur les Grecs_. Byron reflects upon his
paradoxes and superficiality in Note II., _infra_. Thomas Thornton
published, in 1807, a work entitled _Present State of Turkey_ (see Note
II., _infra_).]

[236] {192} [The MSS. of _Hints from Horace_ and _The Curse of Minerva_
are dated, "Athens, Capuchin Convent, March 12 and March 17, 1811."
Proof B of _Hints from Horace_ is dated, "Athens, Franciscan Convent,
March 12, 1811." Writing to Hodgson, November 14, 1810, he says, "I am
living alone in the Franciscan monastery with one 'fri_ar_' (a Capuchin
of course) and one 'fri_er_' (a bandy-legged Turkish cook)" (_Letters_,
1898, i. 307).]

[237] {193} [The Ionian Islands, with the exception of Corfu and Paxos,
fell into the hands of the English in 1809, 1810. Paxos was captured in
1814, but Corfu, which had been blockaded by Napoleon, was not
surrendered till the restoration of the Bourbons in 1815.]

[238] [The Mainotes or Mainates, who take their name from Maina, near
Cape Taenaron, were the Highlanders of the Morea, "remarkable for their
love of violence and plunder, but a