reasons to conceal, in order to remind you of who I am? Have you forgotten Sunium?" The last words had scarcely passed my lips, ere he grasped me in his arms— “Ah! my dear friend, do I meet you thus! Welcome -a thousand times welcome to the rocks of Ithaca. You saved me from a shameful death, and shall find I can remember, and repay the obligation. But whom have we here? As I live by bread, that villain Foresti, who had well nigh betrayed me to the English government. Caitiff, shrive thy black and guilty soul! thou hast not long to live!" "Jano!" exclaimed I eagerly; "this must not be. I have sworn that I will protect him. He has saved me from the rage of my enemies. Spare him, and you repay any obligation you owe to me." He muttered some curses between his teeth, and strode along the deck apparently in great agitation; while poor Foresti stood trembling by my side, like a criminal before a judge, when he has donned the awful cap of justice to award the last sentence of the law. After a few turns, he came up to the place where we stood-" The villain is safe for this time!" said the outlaw; 66 but, by the blessed Panagia, if I catch him again, I will send him and his ruffians on a voyage to the other world without the ceremony of shrift:" then turning to his gang, who stood each with his drawn brand, in silent astonishment at a scene they had so little anticipated, he ordered them to get the boat ready, and to assist Haroun and myself to get on board. This was soon accomplished, and in less than half an

hour we were landed in safety at the mouth of a cave, one of the retreats of the pirates, into which we entered preceded by the chief holding a torch which he had lit at the entrance.

This man's early history is singular and romantic. A native of the mountains of Metzovo, in Albania, he was of course a robber from his youth. But finding little room for the exercise of his genius in that wild and desert region, he descended to the plains of Larissa, and associating with a gang of desperadoes like himself, laid the whole country under contribution. Emboldened by frequent success, he was, in an evil hour, persuaded to make an attack on a party of English travellers escorted by a number of Janissaries and Albanian servants, near the town of Vola, where, after a desperate conflict, his band was overpowered, and himself with three others made prisoners. With persons of his character and profession the Turkish authorities generally make short work. He was sentenced by the Voivode of Vola to be impaled alive, and his three companions to be shot; a sentence which would have been carried into immediate execution, but for the vain and hypocritical anxiety of the Voivode to make a display of his vigilance in repressing the banditti -to which, in point of fact, he had so little contributed, that he generally received a share of their plunder,—— and to strike terror, by a formal execution of an archbandit and three of his followers. The agreeable cere mony was, therefore, postponed till the following day.

In this predicament, Jano saw no harm in availing himself of the interval to disappoint the populace of one of their favourite amusements-an execution. By some means not known, he contrived to disengage himself from his fetters, and in the middle of the night, set fire to the house in which he was confined. By his exertions, aided by his comrades, whose irons he had also knocked off, the fire spread with great rapidity, and threatened to involve the whole town in destruction. An alarm was soon given; the people assembled in the utmost confusion and dismay! and Jano, and his three surviving followers,' availing themselves of the riot and hubbub that prevailed, quietly slipped off, without the ceremony of taking leave, -fervently grateful for the "law's delay," and the official self-importance and vanity of the Voivode of Vola.

After this narrow escape, he betook himself to Athens, where he hired himself out as a servant to several foreigners resident in that ruined capital, and acquired their esteem and regard, both by his fidelity and attachment, qualities not incompatible with his former profession of a robber, of which, indeed, he made no secret, although I have never heard that he made any boast of his escape from the clutches of the Voivode of Vola. But he soon turned weary of this comparatively inactive life, and, having been discharged from the service of an English nobleman, to whom he was much attached, and who was about to return to his own country, he suddenly disappeared, and joined a number of outlaws who usually

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