Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

OF THE ALBANIAN 237 tinue the journey that you have begun. For you there will be no danger, and you will be preserved through all difficulties. We thank you from our hearts. May God save you! ' It reads coldly in black and white. Set in the aching desolation of the land it was an exceediig bitter cry-poignant, tragic, helpless, and it is but one example out of many. I protested in vain I had neither power nor influence. Nor did folk waste time over revolutionary rhetoric. They lucidly unfolded the situation. 'Russia's interest in and work for the Bulgarians,' they said, 'has been, and is, purely for her own purposes. This England has long known. Russia is her foe and ours. Together we fought her in the Crimea. The recent risings in Macedonia are the result of long years of Russian intrigue. That land is ours. It was ours before any Bulgar set foot in it. Now they work to persuade Europe that it is theirs. Bulgaria, as all the world knows, is a poor country. Financed by Russia, these people strive to take our land. We could easily have killed them all had we wished. Europe calls them patriots when they kill us, and condemns us if we avenge ourselves. England has just given money to feed these people. We do not wish these peasants to starve, for they are the victims of political intrigue, and are very ignorant. But if England means by giving this help that she will aid Pan-Slavonic plots and help Russia to take our land, then we think it
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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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