Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

236 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. heard freedom preached passionately by keen-faced men with burning eyes, urgent, insistent, who prayed me almost with tears to lay their case before the British Government, saying, 'England is a just country, and she will listen to the truth.' Nor shall I easily forget the day when I was taken in at a back-door after a long round-about walk, and heard an address in French. It was torn into pieces as soon as read, for it bore many signatures, but I wrote from memory very shortly afterwards: 'HONOURED LADY, 'We cannot express to you the joy that your journey gives us. We know very well the terrible sufferings you must have undergone upon the road. They must be for some good purpose. We believe that God has sent you to save us. Only in your country in all the world does true freedom exist. You have seen the misery of our land! Between the Moslem Begs, who are permitted to extort money from us, and the Government, which takes our money and gives us nothing in return, the majority of us are reduced to dire poverty. There are many who have scarcely a shirt to cover them. After a bad harvest many die of cold and hunger on the mountains. The people of our villages are ignorant savages, and there is none to help them. We pray you in God's name to write all day and all night, to print our misery in every paper and to ask for justice. The Slavs have Russia to help them. We have no one. We entreat you to con
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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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