The Turks of Ioannina form a numerous body, not to be distinguished, however, in any essential feature from the people of this nation elsewhere. Those who are immediately employed under the Vizier are excited perhaps to a greater activity by the nature of his government; but the remainder exhibit the same indolence, apathy, and prejudice, the same customs and deformities of social life, by which they have long been characterized as a community. Their national haughtiness, however, is not equally prominent here as in other parts of Turkey. It has been subdued in part by the despotism under which they live, and brought more nearly to a level with the feeling of the Greeks and Albanians around them.
