Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

T'rPELEN TO ELBASAN. 295 that they probably did not have a harder time than they Would if they stayed at home. All of Which is thie. Nevertheless, the system is one which must be open to the grossest abuse, for, so everyone assured me, the girl is her master's property, and cannot leave before the expiry of the agreed term of years. If it is not slavery, it is something unpleasantly like it; Malakastra, as seen across the river, is a wild, mountainous land. The only village in sight was a solidly-built stone one. There was good land, too, I was told, but the people till little of it. The Valley narrowed again, and became a rocky gorge. We made an abrupt descent on foot to the river's edge. How the beasts got down with unbroken legs I do not know. On either side the river were various almost inaccessible caverns high in the cliff face. These ate all fabled to contain magic treasure, if yot only know how to find it. In spite of the long march he had already made, the kirijee thought it worth while to scramble up to one of them, but returned to say that the entrance was blocked and he could not get in. Evening was drawing in, and we were Still in the wilderhies. We had been nearly ten hours on the match, and were barely half-way to Avlota. Men and beasts Were exhausted; it Would be impossible to push on in the dark even were they not. There was a han on the tiver's edge btt a little further on, and there, said the zaptlehs, we must pass the night. It was a ramshackle wooden and stone affair, with
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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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