Beyond the pavilion there are gardens belonging to the principal citizens of Ioannina, and as most of these have a summer-house in them, they seem to make a part of the city, which, from its great apparent extent, might be thought to contain a very large population. But the Mahometans never make any efforts to ascertain the exact number of inhabitants in any town or district, and it was only during our stay in Turkey, that the Greek priests of one city were persuaded, for the first time, by a Scotch gentleman, to keep a regular registry of births in their district. This makes every thing that can be said on the population of Ioannina, mere conjecture. Some informed me that it contained eight thousand houses, others did not make the number of inhabitants amount to more than thirty-five thousand. I should think this is the lowest possible computation. Of this number, whatever it be, one-tenth perhaps are Mahometans, and the remainder Christians, with a few Jews.
