The Albanian residents in Ioannina are among the lower class of inhabitants. Those in the military service of the Vizier are chiefly quartered upon the Greek families, by whom this is felt as a very burdensome and oppressive tax. There are Greek merchants in the city who are frequently required to provide lodging, either in their own habitations or elsewhere, for forty or fifty men, and those of an irregular soldiery, little fettered by the restraints of discipline.
