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

218 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. The Moslem kavas was getting excited; he was itching to play the part of chucker-out. The air was thick with abuse. It had been going on for a couple of hours. The only way to avoid a catastrophe was to evict everyone, so that they might spread a counter-rumour and stop the affair; but I could not employ a Moslem man to chuck out Christian women. There was a final and futile parley. Then I turned to the nearest woman, pointed to the gate, and said: 'Go!' 'No,' said she. I took her by the belt and collar and ran her down the slope; the kavas whipped open the gate, and she was outside and the gate shut before she had got over her surprise. I hoped this would be enough, but never a bit. I was not educated for a policeman, and, as I evicted the fourth, feared they meant to tire me out. However, to my relief the fifth turned the scale, and the rest got up and went. It was one of the most trying episodes I ever had to tackle. The next bazar rumour proved true. Ochrida was agog with the news that a Russian newspaper correspondent was coming. His possible mission was much canvassed. He arrived from Kastoria with a military escort, and was chaperoned carefully about Ochrida between two Turkish officers. When I called next morning on the Bishop, to make my final farewells, the Russian was coming out, and His Grace, ' Pan-Slavonically' consoled, was in high

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Title: The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
Author: Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
Canvas: Page 218
Publication: London :: Nelson,; [1905]
Subject terms: Eastern question (Balkan); Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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