Such  men  as  these  could  expect  no  quarter  from  the  Turks,
whenever  the  chances  of  war  threw  them  into  their  hands.
The  tortures  to  which  they  were  subjected,  when  such  a  mis-
fortune happened,  make  us  shudder  as  we  read  the  horrible  de-
tails ;  but  the  Klephts  bore  them  with  the  stoicism  of  the  North
American  Indians.  Death  on  the  field  of  battle  filled  their  idea
of  glory ;  and  capture  or  submission  embodied  to  their  minds
all  that  was  dishonoring  and  horrible.  At  their  banquets,  the
favorite  toast  was  KaXov  fio\v/3i,  "  Welcome  the  bullet ! "  The
bodies  of  those  who  fell  in  battle  they  honored  with  the  name
of  victims  ;  the  bodies  of  those  who  died  of  sickness  or  age,  —  by
a  natural  death,  as  we  term  it,  —  they  stigmatized  as  carcasses.
