Travels in Greece and Albania.

Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1830 Original Publisher: H. Colburn and R. Bentley Subjects: Sicily Albania Greece Greece, Modern Sicily (Italy) History / Ancient / Greece History / Europe / Eastern History / Europe / Italy History / Europe / Greece Travel / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 100 DIFFICULTIES IN ALl'b HISTORY. CHAPTER V. Having proceeded thus far in the journal of our residence at loannina, during the course of which I have been necessarily led to bring forward many characteristic traits of its late celebrated ruler, I am induced to think that a more detailed account of his adventurous life, in which the causes of his uncommon success may be connected with their effects, will not prove unacceptable to my readers. The earlier parts of this wild and romantic history never can be very accurately and authentically described, since they rest upon oral traditions, or accounts which have been compiled from those traditions after a long intervening time : and though I have perused an immense number of such records, I never met with two that agreed with each other, either in the relation of facts or the developement of motives. In all such cases it is necessary to be well acquainted with the character of the persons from whom we receive information, and to know what have been their opportunities of acquiring it. For my own part, I found none more able or willing to impart this information than the old Albanian governors of cities, fortresses and seraglios, which we visited in our DOCUMENTS FOR ALl'S HISTORY. 101 excursions : these men were the early friends of Ali in his youth, sharers of his toils, and partners of his success...