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

282 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. 'If you would only do so,' said a man, ' you would give happiness to hundreds of people.' Many people, I was told, had offered to subscribe towards the rebuilding, and they had vainly petitioned Constantinople again and again. Forty or fifty people were drowned yearly trying to ford whenfhe river is low to save the cost of the ferry, but when they had wanted to try and build a temporary wooden bridge across the still-standing buttresses, they had been forbidden, and told bridges belonged to a Government department. They were terribly in earnest about it. A Moslem vowed that all I had to do was to write to the Sultan and say I would do it myself. I said I had not money to build bridges. ' It will cost you only a postage-stamp,' he said. 'You must write and say that the sight of the suffering of his Moslem subjects has made you, a woman and a Christian, undertake to help them. A woman and a Christian! It will be such a terrible thing to the Padishah to be offered help by a female giaour, he will order the bridge to be built at once I But you must write from England. He receives all the letters that come from foreigners. Our poor petitions he never sees ' The Sultan, someone added, was afraid of the English; he allowed them to do anything: 'See what they have been doing in Macedonia! You can help us if you will.' The relief work in Macedonia was intended to be non-political and purely humanitarian; indirectly

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Title: The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
Author: Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
Canvas: Page 282
Publication: London :: Nelson,; [1905]
Subject terms: Eastern question (Balkan); Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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