February xxvi.
We depart from Allalmalée, and in two hours and a half arrive at Malgara, where I observed a Turkish drink called bozók, being a whitish thick beer made of millet seed. This is a large and pleasant town, abounding in the production of honey, and bears the name of a lady, who redeemed its security from plunder for a vast sum of money, from the first Turkish conqueror. It is now reserved as a place of banishment for the prime ministers of the empire. We proceed homeward till about the sixth hour of this day’s journey, when having lost my watch the preceding evening, we searched the company upon some suspicion we had entertained of a catergée, who yesterday joined us; and accordingly we find it concealed in the corner of his breeches. In ten hours we arrive at Derrícui a small Christian village, and there conáck. I must not omit, that this day we discovered to the left the mountains of Samothrace, the course of the Hebrus, and more forward the snowy top of Rodope.