Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

226 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. my proposed route. I fancy the fact that we both painted in water-colours was a bond of sympathy. He hoped I had my apparatus with me, and assured me I should see' des choses tres bizarres.' I thanked him, and was about to leave, when he said that, as I had been on hospital work at Ochrida, I should perhaps like to see the Turkish hospital, over the arrangements of which he had taken much trouble, and he called up a soldier to take me there. It is a very decent building, airy, clean, and bright, with good wards, big windows, and a large garden. Mine was a surprise visit, and I found the bed-linen all clean. I do not know what the doctoring is like, but the patients almost all looked cheery and comfortable, with the exception of some in the typhoid ward, where there were some very bad cases. The pharmacy man took me round, and told me the prescriptions. Patients of every race and religion are received, but lack of funds prevents it from opening all its wards. I had now nothing left to do but buy a secondhand gendarmerie saddle and bridle, with a blue saddle-cloth adorned with scarlet crescents, cram the necessaries of life into a pair of saddle-bags, roll up my blanket in a waterproof sheet, and be off.
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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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