Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

OCHRIDA. 213 There is something highly farcical in being threatened with brigandage and murder in the course of a morning call with a background of European furniture, and I laughed. 'You kill me,' said I, 'and there is the end of your Bulgaria. No civilized Power will help you. I am not going because I am afraid of you. The work is finished here, and I am going to ride through Albania.' 'You can't,' cried the Jackal; 'it is most dangerous.' 'Oh no, it isn't,' said I; 'the Albanians won't want " to take me like Miss Stone."' Check to the Bishop. He changed the subject. I had been astonished at his outbreak; the cause now appeared. I was black sheep for my nation. England, he said, was attacking Russia under the Japanese flag, with English ships, English officers, English weapons. England had provoked the declaration of war. The news in the papers I had lent him were lies, English lies. England had never liked the Balkan Slavs, and now she was attacking their only friend. Blood is thicker than water. 'Scratch a Russian and you find a Tartar,' seemed to apply to Bulgars. He threw off all pretence of friendship for England, and displayed a bitter Balkan hatred-raw and fierce. I was vividly interested. I wanted, of all things, to learn what part Russia plays in Bulgaria's scheme for territorial aggrandisement. Weeks ago I had been convinced that the peasants
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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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