[cr] {93} _The hearts amid thy mountains bred_.--[MS.] [64] Athens is the property of the Kislar Aga [kizlar-aghasî] (the slave of the Seraglio and guardian of the women), who appoints the Waywode. A pander and eunuch--these are not polite, yet true appellations--now _governs_ the _governor_ of Athens! [Hobhouse maintains that this subordination of the waiwodes (or vaivodes = the Sclavic βοεβόδα [boebo/da]) (Turkish governors of Athens) to a higher Turkish official, was on the whole favourable to the liberties and well-being of the Athenians.--_Travels in Albania_, 1858, i. 246.] [cs] _Now to the neighbouring shores they waft_ _Their ancient and proverbial craft_.--[MS. erased.] [ct] {94} _he silent slants the doubtful creek_.--[MS] [65] [The reciter of the tale is a Turkish fisherman, who has been employed during the day in the gulf of Ægina, and in the evening, apprehensive of the Mainote pirates who infest the coast of Attica, lands with his boat on the harbour of Port Leone, the ancient Piræus. He becomes the eye-witness of nearly all the incidents in the story, and in one of them is a principal agent. It is to his feelings, and particularly to his religious prejudices, that we are indebted for some of the most forcible and splendid parts of the poem.--Note by George Agar Ellis, 1797-1833.] [66] [In Dr. Clarke's Travels (Edward Daniel Clarke, 1769-1822, published _Travels in Europe, Asia, Africa_, 1810-24), this word, which means _infidel_, is always written according to its English pronunciation, _Djour_. Byron adopted the Italian spelling usual among the Franks of the Levant.--_Note to Edition_ 1832. The pronunciation of the word depends on its origin. If it is associated with the Arabic _jawr_, a "deviating" or "erring," the initial consonant would be soft, but if with the Persian _gawr_, or _guebre_, "a fire-worshipper," the word should be pronounced _Gow-er_--as Gower Street has come to be pronounced. It is to be remarked that to the present day the Nestorians of Urumiah are contemned as _Gy-ours_ (the _G_ hard), by their Mohammedan countrymen.--(From information kindly supplied by Mr. A. G. Ellis, of the Oriental Printed Books and MSS. Department, British Museum.)] [cu] {95} _Though scarcely marked_----.--[MS.] [cv] _With him my wonder as he flew_.--[MS.] _With him my roused and wondering view_.--[MS. erased.] [cw] {96} _For him who takes so fast a flight_.--[MS. erased.] [67] [Compare-- "A moment now he slacked his speed, A moment breathed his panting steed." Scott's _Lay of the Last Minstrel_, Canto I. stanza xxvii. lines 1, 2.] [cx] _And looked along the olive wood_.--[MS.] [68] "Tophaike," musket. The Bairam is announced by the cannon at sunset: the illumination of the mosques, and the firing of all kinds of small arms, loaded with _ball_, proclaim it during the night. [The Bairâm, the Moslem Easter, a festival of three days, succeeded the Ramazân.]