Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

TE-PELEN TO ELI3ASAN. folds of the toga had 'been quite, recently broken off. Near it was the lower part of a draped femnalo statue. Both fragments5 were of the finest white marble, and the best style of Romawok It wa~s Easter Swinday, andc the courtyard was full of peasants in their best-tall men in dazzling white fustanelias, dark blue leggings,crmo waistcoats with two bands of silver qchains crossed on the brTeast, and white eoauts with hanging sleeveii em broidered in blaclk wo~men in long-,skirted, sleeve, les4 coats striped diagonally with scarlet-brilliantly aproned, and a-dangle with.4 coins —who flashed and glittered. like parrots in the sigiihine.Da oe Byzantium, and live Abiapast culturo and pset, desolation made an entirely fascinaigwoe The~ head of then monasitery, an Albanian, tall, haughty, a sort of ecces atca paha served b a most humble pries t, and a htoffustanelled retainers, received me with affability, and offered hoptlity, I decided to stay the night. All the land round, it appears, is swayed by him, and the monm,tory is wealthy though barbaric. Our horsess were supplied lavishly with hay and corn. I was informed that a sumnptuou5 meal would be prepared for me, too, and. particularly asked not to- eat the food I had 'brought. The people who had come up to afternoon service had not expected anything halif so amusing as a foreig female, and were most friendly. When I began a drawing of the church, a. man who could speak a little Italian came forward and said:
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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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