Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

MONASTIR TO TEPELEN. 285 huge and heavy, flat-bottomed barge, and was being whirled down-stream at a fearful pace. 'They will all drown! ' cried my guide, and he prayed aloud as they dashed straight at the piers of the bridge. Loud yells, an exciting second or two, they steered cleverly, shot safely through, paddling violently, and landed, some way below, triumphant-a wild set of black gipsies, ragged, half-stripped savages-and towed the barge upstream level with the point they had started from. The suvarri leapt his gray horse into the caik, a gipsy bent to give me a pick-a-back. 'You are really going?' said my poor guide, as they dumped us both on board. I was so eager to buzz through the bridge with that crew of the ' devil's own ' that I did not realize till we were shoving off how really nervous the poor man was, and repented I had dragged him into danger. He buried his head in his hands; we whirled down-stream; the gipsies paddled for their lives, and the sweat poured off them as, with a supreme effort, they wrenched the caik round; it shot clear between two piles, and reached the further bank in a few seconds. Two more voyages fetched the kirijee, the three mules, and the other suvarri without accident. This treat cost ten shillings, and gained me the gratitude of many unlucky peasants, who were stuck in the town unable to get away, and two townspeople, who came over with me; so it was money well expended.
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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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