Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

286 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. Rain set in again almost at once; the wild stream rose again rapidly, and there would be no more traffic for days. The possibility of fetching me had been hotly debated all the morning, and, finally, it was by orders of the Kaimmakam that the attempt had been made. In fact, said the Police Commissary, only for a very special visitor like myself would the risk have been run. I fancy, from the sensation our arrival caused, that the crossing was really rather dangerous. It felt at the time like the ' water-shoot' at Earl's Court. The hanjee hurried to prepare a room suitable for one so distinguished. He laid a red rug on the floor, and arranged eight brass ash-trays all in a row across the middle (I had to pick them up, as I kept tumbling over them, and explained in answer to many inquiries that respectable females don't smoke in England). He put up an iron bedstead, and covered it with a rug and two very handsome pieces of thick, cream-coloured silk, woven in stripes, added a scarlet cushion, and admired the effect greatly. Tepelen is a wonderful place, the wild heart of a wild land. Walled and buttressed, it stands on a high plateau, around which tower snow-clad mountains. Just above the town the torrential Drin dashes into the Viosa, and spreads wide between great shingle-banks, the bare bones of the land it has devastated. The plateau ends in a rocky crag, scooped to a seat, which commands a huge view. Here Ali used to sit and look across his
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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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