Travels in Southeastern Europe

The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.

124 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. began to bang at my door and try to force an entrance as early as seven in the morning, when the chill gray dawn was breaking-unhappy wretches, clad only in rags, part of whose object in coming was to squat by my stove as soon as it was lit. From dawn to dark I was never alone; case followed case. Now a headman and a priest to beg help for their village, now a woman with a sick child; sometimes a wretched old woman, blue with cold, who cried and prayed for a little bit of blanket, and occasionally a well-fed youth, who demanded a gift because he had fought in the insurrection and was dismissed with difficulty. They all spoke at once. My interpreter and the Albanian translated simultaneously into French and Servian of a sort. Those who were refused would never take 'No' as an answer, but sat down and prepared to spend the day. The local doctor-a little man of the Greek persuasion, who was rumoured to possess a kind of diploma-discovered the hour when I was likely to be chewing my hungry way through a lump of boiled mutton, and used the opportunity to bring in patients and strip them, that I might see for myself that suppuration had diminished, and I had one day the pleasure of seeing him dress a small sore with saliva and cigarette-paper. Resna had possessed a properly qualified man, but he was shot in the last rising, and the Greek dared not visit patients outside the town without an armed escort. Serious cases we sent up to Ochrida, and we miti
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The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
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Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
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London :: Nelson,
[1905]
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Eastern question (Balkan)
Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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