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

OCHRIDA. I89 themselves itwas not dangerous. This was three years ago, and after repeatedly applying for it, he had given up all hope. 'Alles ist verloren!' he cried-' alles, alles All my bacteriology study-everything! It is a lost land. What can I do here? Give quinine to a fever the nature of which I am not permitted to investigate! ' I was not surprised when he told me he was leaving shortly, and hoped never to return. If the Government had spent only half the energy in encouraging knowledge that it has in suppressing it, I really think Turkey might be one of the bestinformed nations in Europe. The Turk will set his back to the wall and die hard, but he will never learn. 'Alles ist verloren.' The only thing that can develop freely is evil. Among the refugees in the town was an unhappy little boy dangerously ill of typhoid fever. His village was burnt, his father had been shot, and he had no relatives but a devoted little sister of about sixteen. She, poor child! against all orders, gave him the coveted delicacy,' komad,' to eat. He had a violent relapse; all our efforts to save him were in vain, and a few nights later the long-drawn wails of his sister and the old women of the neighbourhood shrilled weirdly in the dark. He was dead. The little sister was bitterly distressed, and had no friends to help her. I paid for the dish of boiled wheat which she believed a necessary aid to his soul's salvation, and, learning it was the proper

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Title: The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
Author: Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
Canvas: Page 189
Publication: London :: Nelson,; [1905]
Subject terms: Eastern question (Balkan); Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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