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

OCHRIDA. I9g in the morning without her sham pigtails and with her locks dripping. She was rather upset to find me dry-headed, and seemed to think I had lost the only chance of a wash for the year. The hospital patients had a head-wash, and I found them all agog for dinner-time and 'komad.' The doctor had gone round with me the day before, and had sorted out those who might eat this delectable delicacy from those who might not. It'was impossible to forbid 'komad' altogether, for 'komad' eating was the one religious observance that interested everyone. Vasilika was given strict orders. You might, however, as well give orders to a cat. They all had ' komad.' Next day our convalescent typhoid, whose temperature had been normal for three days, was in high fever, and so it was with three other patients. They were much surprised when accused of' komad,' and wondered how the doctor had found out. We 'went for' Vasilika. She was very pleased with herself, and said they had had their ' komad' in spite of us. Nor, unless I had stayed in the hospital all day and all night, could I have prevented this. Even then they would no doubt have eaten 'komad' in one room while I was in another. But I am afraid it cost the typhoid man his life. That was the end of Carnival. We began a forty-eight days' fast. On the first day nothing at all is eaten till evening; after that there is complete abstinence from all animal food. Even

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Title: The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
Author: Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
Canvas: Page 191
Publication: London :: Nelson,; [1905]
Subject terms: Eastern question (Balkan); Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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