Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

266 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. moved, and as, so my guide told me, the presence of the soldier made her very nervous, the position was most embarrassing. I had been quartered on the poor lady quite against her will. I think she was selected because she was Greek, with a view to proving to me that it was a Greek town. The room was very swagger with European carpet and furniture, a lamp and lookingglass tied up in gauze, and Berlin woolwork, virulent enough to have been made in Germany, which glared from every corner and hung framed on the wall. In spite of this gallant attempt at being European, the bed was, as usual, spread upon the floor when night came. The soldier ate up the remains of my supper, and slept just outside my door. I paid a state call on the Kaimmakam next daythat is to say, I was told at what hour he wished to receive me, and was fetched by an officer. The Kaimmakam is very much a Turk, and comes from Asia Minor. His civility was extreme and his French very fair. He was entirely at my service, and no honour was too great for me. He dismissed all the other men, sent for his wife and mother, who spoke only Turkish, and started cross-examining me, but was not clever at it. I knew that Albania was disaffected, but I had not till then realized that the Turkish Government was so nervous about it. 'Bless the man l' thought I, 'the political situation must be uncommonly " tittupy."' It was my first, but by no means my last, experience of being' suspect,' and I was amused.
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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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