ast,
sinister look which marked the degraded Greek, received them with a
hearty welcome.

Next morning they resumed their journey, and halted one night more
before they reached Tepellene, in approaching which they met a
carriage, not inelegantly constructed after the German fashion, with
a man on the box driving four-in-hand, and two Albanian soldiers
standing on the footboard behind. They were floundering on at a trot
through mud and mire, boldly regardless of danger; but it seemed to
the English eyes of the travellers impossible that such a vehicle
should ever be able to reach Libokavo, to which it was bound. In due
time they crossed the river Laos, or Voioutza, which was then full,
and appeared both to Byron and his friend as broad as the Thames at
Westminster; after crossing it on a stone bridge, they came in sight
of Tepellene, when

The sun had sunk behind vast Tomerit,
And Laos, wide and fierce, came roaring by;
The shades of wonted night were gathering yet,
When down the steep banks, winding warily,
Childe Harold saw, like meteors in the sky,
The glittering minarets of Tepalen,
Whose walls o'erlook the stream; and drawing nigh,
He heard the busy hum of warrior-men
Swelling the breeze that sigh'd along the lengthening glen.

On their arrival, they proceeded at once to the residence of Ali
Pasha, an extensive rude pile, where they witnessed a scene, not
dissimilar to that which they might, perhaps, have beheld some
hundred years ago, in the castle-yard of a great feudal baron.
Soldiers, with their arms piled against the wall, were assembled in
different parts of the court, several horses, completely caparisoned,
were led about, others were neighing under the hands of the grooms;
and for the feast of the night, armed cooks were busy dressing kids
and sheep. The scene is described with the poet's liveliest pencil.

Richly caparison'd a ready row
Of armed horse, and many a warlike store,
Circled the wide extending court below;
Above, strange groups adorn'd the corridor,
And ofttimes through the area's echoing door,
Some high-capp'd Tartar spurr'd his steed away.
The Turk, the Greek, the Albanian, and the Moor
Here mingled in their many-hued array,
While the deep war-drum's sound announced the close of day.

Some recline in groups,
Scanning the motley scene that varies round.
There some grave Moslem to devotion stoops,
And some tha