Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

292 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. ringing its summit. The place is called Dukut, and has been identified by some, according to the Kaimmakam, with Dodona, but Dodona has with fair certainty been located close to Janina. I dared not afford time to climb up to investigate it, as in this wretched land the loss of a few hours may mean that night will overtake you in the wilderness, and the nights were as yet far too chill and damp to risk sleeping out in. In spite of flannel bandages and salicylate, the ghost of rheumatism still haunted me. We pushed on. At the door of a little tekieh a fine white-bearded old dervish was dealing out bread to the poor. After this the way grew worse and worse, and the land was almost uninhabited. Only a tiny village showed white on the mountainside here and there, and, save a goatherd or two, we met no one the whole day. All the land looked like an undiscovered country, and as wild as the day it was created. We pounded over loose wet stones and then into awful liquid mud and stiff wet clay. The legs of the poor mules sank in kneedeep, and came out with a loud plop. I had to sit my beast as long as possible, though I felt it was cruel, as I could not have tramped far in such 'heavy going.' Mules are singularly stupid animals. They climb, it is true, with cat-like agility, but those that are used to travelling in a caravan persist in following the beast in front, no matter what happens, and when the first mule has fallen into a mud-hole and been hauled out,
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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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