On it there is a village, containing about 200 houses, which display greater neatness than I ever remember to have seen in any part of the world; it lies at the water’s edge, near the N.E. corner; its houses are good, its streets clean, its churches handsome, and its inhabitants very industrions. It belongs chiefly to Mouchtar Pasha, but the vizir has a serai in its vicinity, and keeps a herd of red deer upon the island which add much to its picturesque beauty. Seven convents occupy different situations upon this isle; these have frequently been used as places of confinement for state prisoners… In one of these receptacles Mustafa Pasha of Delvino was starved to death, and at this very time his two sons are immured in another, cut off from every consolation and from all commerce with mankind. The people of this island subsist principally by catching and supplying the city with fish, that abounds in the lake.
