Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

OCHRIDA. x65 thousands. When he died he left them to be divided between his two sons. But the elder was a very wicked man. He took all the finest sheep, and gave only a few that were weakly to the younger. Then God was angry with the elder brother, and struck his flock with barrenness; but the ewes of the younger all bore twins. Soon the flock of the elder was the smaller of the two. In great wrath he sent for his brother, and demanded to exchange flocks, and the younger refused. Then they fought on the point of that great rock which you see above you. They fought all day until they were both killed, and their blood ran down the cliff into the lake, and the rocks are red to this day, as any man can see. 'If there were only another Government here, how beautiful this lake might be!' sighed my comrade. 'We might have a steamboat with coloured lights and a band!' One should even give the Devil his due; there is one point, and one only, for which I am grateful to the Sultan: so long as he reigns there will never be a road by which a trip tourist can get up-country, nor a hotel in which he can stay and play 'Arry. Ochrida, the town, is mean and squalid. The houses, though'modern, have a strangely mediaeval appearance, fodt they are built of timber and plaster with widely-projecting upper storeys, and in the narrower streets folk can almost shake hands with their neighbours over the way. But they are for the most part nineteenth-century buildings hastily run up. The lath and plaster work is of the most
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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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