He shuns touching him with the hand, kisses him only on the forehead, sings his praise in verse, a woman's never." One of these love-poems of an Albanian Gege runs as follows: "The sun, when it rises in the morning, is like you, boy, when you are near me.

When your dark eye turns upon me, it drives my reason from my head." It should be added that Prof.Weigand, who knew the Albanians well, assured Bethe (_Rheinisches Museum fuer Philologie_, 1907, p.

475) that the relations described by Hahn are really sexual, although tempered by idealism.

A German scholar who travelled in Albania some years ago, also, assured Naecke (_Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen_, vol.ix, 1908, p.

327) that he could fully confirm Hahn's statements, and that, though it was difficult to speak positively, he doubted whether these relationships were purely ideal.