Pa/rga!]

And as they roared out this stave, they whirled round the fire, dropped,
and rebounded from their knees, and again whirled round as the chorus
was again repeated."--_Travels in Albania_, i. 166, 167.]

[169] {145} [This was not Byron's first experience of an Albanian
war-song. At Salakhora, on the Gulf of Arta (nine miles north-east of
Prevesa), which he reached on October 1, the Albanian guard at the
custom-house entertained the travellers by "singing some songs." "The
music is extremely monotonous and nasal; and the shrill scream of their
voices was increased by each putting his hand behind his ear and cheek,
to give more force to the sound."--_Travels in Albania_, i. 28.

Long afterwards, in 1816, one evening, on the Lake of Geneva, Byron
entertained Shelley, Mary, and Claire with "an Albanian song." They seem
to have felt that such melodies "unheard are sweeter." Hence, perhaps,
his _petit nom_, "Albe," that is, the "Albaneser."--_Life of Shelley_,
by Edward Dowden, 1896, p. 309.]

[170] {146} [Tambourgi, "drummer," a Turkish word, formed by affixing
the termination _-gi_, which signifies "one who discharges any
occupation," to the French _tambour_ (H. F. Tozer, _Childe Harold_, p.
246).]

[fm] ----_thy tocsin afar_.--[MS. D. erased.]

[171] [The _camese_ is the _fustanella_ or white kilt of the Toska, a
branch of the Albanian, or Shkipetar, race. Spenser has the forms
"camis," "camus." The Arabic _quam[=i]c_ occurs in the Koran, but is
thought to be an adaptation of the Latin _camisia, camisa_.--Finlay's
_Hist, of Greece_, vi. 39; _N. Eng. Dict._, art. "Camis." (For "capote,"
_vide post_, p. 181.)]

[fn] _Shall the sons of Chimaera_----.--[MS. D.]

[172] [The Suliotes, after a protracted and often successful resistance,
were finally reduced by Ali, in December, 1803. They are adjured to
forget their natural desire for vengeance, and to unite with the
Albanians against their common foe, the Russians.]

[fo] {147} _Shall win the young minions_----.--[MS. D.]

[fp] ----_the maid and the youth_.--[MS.]

[fq] _Their caresses shall lull us, their voices shall soothe_.--[MS. D.
erased.]

[173] {148} [So, too, at Salakhora (October 1): "One of the songs was on
the taking of Prevesa, an exploit of which the Albanians are vastly
proud; and there was scarcely one of them in which the name of Ali Pasha
was not roared out and dwelt upon with peculiar energy."--_Travels in
Albania_, i. 29.

Prevesa, wh