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

CHAPTER VII ON THE SHORES OF LAKE PRESBA MEANWHILE doleful tidings poured in from the villages round Lake Presba —appeals for help from those yet unvisited, and rumours of smallpox. When you have once made up your mind to be Balkan you are always ready to start anywhere, at any minute. I rolled a native blanket in a waterproof sheet, put a spoon, a tin cup, a few medicines, etc., in a little bag, trusted entirely to luck that I should find food and not get wet through, and was ready for a week's travel, Every extra pound is a bother on horseback, The Mudir decided that I must have two gendarmes, and as he had hitherto let me do just as I liked, I asked for Christians —chiefly because the Bulgars I was working with declared he would never allow it, also in order to 'sample' the new Christian gendarmes. However, he made no difficulty, and the only Christian in the local force was allotted to me. The start took some time. Almost every man in this land, not excepting troopers and gendarmes,

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Title: The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
Author: Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
Canvas: Page 135
Publication: London :: Nelson,; [1905]
Subject terms: Eastern question (Balkan); Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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