Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

342 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. The fore-quarter of lamb we had brought with us was handed over to the woman to be cooked, and while the feast was preparing she came and sat with us. He had not been pleased when he first saw us, as he feared the police meant mischief; 'but,' he added frankly, with a gleam in his old eyes, 'if you have come for anything, I have plenty of guns ready.' He picked up the suvarri's Martini, and said his own were the same pattern. I told him that in our villages no one ever carried rifles. He was much interested. ' It is much better so,' he said. 'Yours must be a fortunate land. Here we cannot live without them. I am eighty years old. Every year all my life people have said that things will be better, but they never are. Now they are talking again about reforms. I have heard it all so often before, and I shall die without seeing peace.' His simple dignity was very impressive. I asked his name. 'I am Suliman to the Turks,' he replied, 'but I was baptized Constantine.' I asked if all the children had double names. The Police Commissary doubted it. They were all squatting round us, eager, healthy, bright-eyed little chaps, as keen as terriers. 'What is your name?' Petro.' 'And your Turkish name?' 'Regep.'
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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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