Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

348 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. balcony, to find that by the Muttasarif's orders they had captured a woman of the village of Chermenik, in Shpata, for me to draw, as it was the oddest dress of the neighbourhood. She had a string of bark to sell, and was told I wanted to buy it. A crowd assembled and bargained with her for it while she raged and stamped, while I, in a most deshabille condition and st6ckingless, jotted her down as fast as I could lay brush to paper. She never knew she had been drawn, and we bought her stuff and let her go in about ten minutes. I spent all the day happily in the bazar with a host of strange folk, a blaze of colour, bizarre, old-world, decorative, all-glorious in the sunshine, and backgrounded by the mysterious depths of hot shadow in the little wooden shops. But all good things come to an end. The Muttasarif, kindly to the last, gave me a large bagful of oranges from his garden to eat on the way, I said good-bye regretfully, and we started early in the morning, along the Egnatian way, for Durazzo, passing through Pekin and Kavaia. Neither calls for much description, and the Roman way is almost all destroyed. According to one of the foreign Consuls, the Turks tore it up pretty recently in a blind rage, with the intent to destroy all communications as far as possible. The hanjee at Pekin, when I remarked that the town was small, replied promptly: 'A gold coin is small, but it is very good.' The Albanian talks in similies very neatly-e.g.,
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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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