Goodisson, William: A historical and topographical essay upon the islands of Corfu, Leucadia, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Zante: with remarks upon the character manners and customs of the Ionian Greeks : descriptions of the scenery and remains of antiquity discovered therein, and reflections upon the Cyclopian ruins, illustrated by maps and sketches (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1822)

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upon these occasions, is an immense roasted turkey
garnished with fowls, or a lamb roasted whole.
Intoxication is seldom or never witnessed.
There are no hotels or coffee houses in the islands
excepting the locanda, which are of the meanest
description of Italian or Venetian eating houses.
An English hotel has been lately established itt Corfu
upon a large and handsome scale, but it is to
be feared that this speculation will not succeed,
from the few strangers that resort there, who have
not lodgings provided for them elsewhere. The
establishment deserves every sort of encouragement.
Provisions are, upon the whole, exceedingly bad
throughout the islands. Good mutton is scarcely
ever to be got, and beef almost as seldom. A good
dish of fish may sometimes be procured by mere
accident, and the poultry is far inferior to that
of England. Fresh butter is not to be had, and
the milk of goats is used, but even this supply
fails altogether for about three months, at the latter
end of the year. Bread is generally good and cheap;
wine is cheap, but not good, the common wine in
use being little better than English small beer.
Upon the whole a person living here must forego
many little comforts, and submit to many priva-
tions ; amongst these may be reckoned, in winter,
the scarcity and dearness of fuel, and the bad con-
struction of the houses for the exclusion of cold,
to which one becomes doubly sensible by long im-