Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

224 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. brutal outrage was crazy drunk. Riding on horses was very cruel, he spluttered; he had gone out at three in the morning to hire a carriage; he didn't mind the expense-not he; he wouldn't ride-not he; was looking for a carriage when the soldiers arrested him! I made a final effort to save the poor devil, but it was in vain. He was too drunk to sit in a saddle even could we induce him to try. We left him behind, and, owing to this final piece of local colour, had a stiff ride to Monastir; for though we pushed on as fast as the mountain-tracks allowed, the sun went down before we got in. A bitter wind arose, and we crawled along at a foot's pace, for it was pitch-dark, and the road a mass of loose stones and holes; also it was freezing hard. I clung to the saddle-peak, and comforted myself only by reflecting what fun it would have been to have brought the Bulgarian Bishop along. Finally the lights of Monastir came in sight. I dismounted, cold and stiff, at the door of the H6tel Stamboul; high time, too, for my luckless interpreter, who was no horseman, was about done up, and my landlord, who had taken advantage of our escort to come to Monastir too, had had quite enough. But I was in a tearing, raging hurry, for an unique chance had offered itself for getting right through Albania, and I did not wish to lose it. A well-known society was sending an agent from one end of the country to the other on business, and was willing that I should accompany him. He was an Albanian, and spoke some French. The one
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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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