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XXXI.]
PROBABLY KALAMYDE.
125
of Lissos, and thirty stades distant from Kriu-metopon.
I know of no other city mentioned in any ancient writer,
which we should be authorized to place here; and the
site agrees perfectly with what we learn of Kalamyde
from the author in question, who alone has recorded
the name of this city.
I returned to Vlithias by half-past ten.
Some days ago, while I was washing, I asked Captain
Manias to reach me a piece of soap, which was lying
near him. He placed it at some distance from me, and
told me that no motive could ever induce him to put it
directly into my hands. The superstition, that when
one person so gives soap to another, it will wash away
their friendship, is generally diffused in Greece and
Turkey3.
I could not but notice Manias's politeness, when,
addressing our Mohammedan host at Vlithias, he spoke
of "those animals which have bristles on their backs,"
and carefully avoided even the name of the unclean pig.
In a similar manner a Greek will apologize to any one
before whom he may mention a Jew*.
3 Sir John Hobhouse, Travels in Albania, Vol. i. p. 33. observes,
" The captain would not give the soap into my hands, though I was sitting
close to him, but put it on the ground within an inch of me.—I found that
in Turkey there is a very prevalent superstition against giving soap into
another's hands: they think it will wash away love."
4 This observation is made by Hartley, Researches in Greece and
the Levant, p. 206. " It is impossible to give an adequate idea of the con-
tempt in which the Jews are held by the Greeks. The style in which they
sometimes speak of them may, in part, illustrate this assertion. When
the Greeks have to mention swine, and some other objects which they deem
particularly offensive, they usually introduce the expression, /xh ^u/nrudeiav,
begging your pardon, as a duty of politeness to the persons present. A
similar mode of speaking is often adopted, when there is occasion to introduce
the mention of a Jew:_£I was walking along the street, and I met, begging
your pardon, a Jew !' "
VOI,. II,
PROBABLY KALAMYDE.
125
of Lissos, and thirty stades distant from Kriu-metopon.
I know of no other city mentioned in any ancient writer,
which we should be authorized to place here; and the
site agrees perfectly with what we learn of Kalamyde
from the author in question, who alone has recorded
the name of this city.
I returned to Vlithias by half-past ten.
Some days ago, while I was washing, I asked Captain
Manias to reach me a piece of soap, which was lying
near him. He placed it at some distance from me, and
told me that no motive could ever induce him to put it
directly into my hands. The superstition, that when
one person so gives soap to another, it will wash away
their friendship, is generally diffused in Greece and
Turkey3.
I could not but notice Manias's politeness, when,
addressing our Mohammedan host at Vlithias, he spoke
of "those animals which have bristles on their backs,"
and carefully avoided even the name of the unclean pig.
In a similar manner a Greek will apologize to any one
before whom he may mention a Jew*.
3 Sir John Hobhouse, Travels in Albania, Vol. i. p. 33. observes,
" The captain would not give the soap into my hands, though I was sitting
close to him, but put it on the ground within an inch of me.—I found that
in Turkey there is a very prevalent superstition against giving soap into
another's hands: they think it will wash away love."
4 This observation is made by Hartley, Researches in Greece and
the Levant, p. 206. " It is impossible to give an adequate idea of the con-
tempt in which the Jews are held by the Greeks. The style in which they
sometimes speak of them may, in part, illustrate this assertion. When
the Greeks have to mention swine, and some other objects which they deem
particularly offensive, they usually introduce the expression, /xh ^u/nrudeiav,
begging your pardon, as a duty of politeness to the persons present. A
similar mode of speaking is often adopted, when there is occasion to introduce
the mention of a Jew:_£I was walking along the street, and I met, begging
your pardon, a Jew !' "
VOI,. II,