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But all their views were tinged with the idea that they lived in a state of war; and in such a state, from the time of the siege of Troy to "the moment when Previsa fell,"* the female captives are, to uncivilised victors, the most valuable part of the booty * Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II. "The wealthy are slaughtered, the lovely are spared."
But all their views were tinged with the idea that they lived in a state of war; and in such a state, from the time of the siege of Troy to "the moment when Previsa fell,"* the female captives are, to uncivilised victors, the most valuable part of the booty * Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II. "The wealthy are slaughtered, the lovely are spared."
The friends left Malta on September 29th, in the war-ship "Spider," and after anchoring off Patras, and spending a few hours on shore, they skirted the coast of Acarnania, in view of localities as Ithaca, the Leucadian rock, and Actium whose classic memories filtered through the poet's mind and found a place in his masterpieces. Landing at Previsa, they started on a tour through Albania,
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