Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

OCHRIDA. 179 ism,' and the authorities listened calmly with a fine air of ' It amuses them, and it does not hurt us.' I was unlucky everywhere in the types of 'Bulgarian patriots ' I met. They quite decided me that if Ochrida were mine to give away they would be the very last people upon whom I would bestow it. And the cultivated and courteous Albanian Kaimmakam sat in the ' konak' and ruled this menagerie with considerable tact. He deprecated all European intervention, but afforded us every facility for relief work, though I gathered from some remarks he let fall that he did not entirely approve of it. Nor was it likely he should, for every Albanian hopes that Ochrida will be his in the end as it was in the beginning, and no support of the loudly-advertised Bulgarian claim is likely to meet with Albanian approval. If the peasants had any complaints to make, he said they should come straight to him, and not to relief agents. Like 'le bon Dieu,' he was accessible to everyone all day long, and an intermediary priest was no more necessary than he was in every sensible man's religion. Bishops in Turkey are very much fishers of men, and to place Bishops is the chief aim of each party. Bulgaria planted one in Ochrida about twelve years ago; therefore of all the Christian factions the Bulgarian is now the largest. My work entirely concerned this, and brought me into contact with both its leaders and its rank and file. The latter crowded our premises daily for relief, and I was also in charge of them at the hospital.
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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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