[This thunderstorm occurred during the night of the 11th October, 1809, when Lord Byron's guides had lost the road to Zitza, near the range of mountains formerly called Pindus, in Albania. Hobhouse, who had ridden on before the rest of the party, and arrived at Zitza just as the evening set in, describes the thunder as rolling "without intermission--the echoes of one peal had not ceased to roll in the mountains, before another tremendous crash burst over our heads, whilst the plains and the distant hills, visible through the cracks in the cabin, appeared in a perpetual blaze. The tempest was altogether terrific, and worthy of the Grecian Jove. Lord Byron, with the priest and the servants, did not enter our hut before three (in the morning). I now learnt from him that they had lost their way, ... and that after wandering up and down in total ignorance of their position, had, at last, stopped near some Turkish tombstones and a torrent, which they saw by the flashes of lightning. They had been thus exposed for nine hours.... It was long before we ceased to talk of the thunderstorm in the plain of Zitza."--_Travels in Albania_, 1858, i. 70, 72; _Childe Harold_, Canto II. stanza xlviii., _Poetical Works_, 1899, ii. 129, note 1.] [i] {11} _Stanzas._--[1812.] [j] {12} _Had Bards but realms along with rhymes_.--[MS. M.] [k] _Again we'd see some Antonies_.--[MS. M.] [l] _Though Jove_----.--[MS. M.] [6] [Compare [_A Woman's Hair_] stanza 1, line 4, "I would not lose you for a world."--_Poetical Works_, 1898, i. 233.] [m] _Written at Athens_.--[1812.]