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“The Albanian is tall, slim and wiry; rather taciturn and dull, and I thought a little inclined to suspicion, often looking slyly out of the corner of his blinking eye at the stranger.

He is the sole agriculturalist in these parts, and stands in contrast to the Wallachian who is the shepherd, and to the Greek who is mainly the tradesman. Though he be the ploughman, the Albanian loves the gun far more than the plough; he usually goes armed, carrying a long knife in a belt around the waist and sometimes a pistol.

He makes an excellent soldier; the bravest champions of Greek independence were the Albanians of the islands; the best soldiers of the Turkish empire are to-day the Albanians of Albania proper or ancient Epirus. There is not a person of Greek blood”.

References

A Walk in Hellas; or, The Old in the New. By Denton J. Snider. Published by Sigma Publishing Companyö (Distributed by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago). 1892