Travels in Southeastern Europe

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

88 THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS. an anxious face. Being a Christian subject of the Sultan, he had naturally inherited a tendency always to expect the worst. 'I think I had better tell you,' he said, 'that something a little unpleasant has happened last night.' As I was on Turkish territory this did not surprise me, but, though I 'had been there before,' I was unprepared for the sequel. 'Djaffir,' he went on, 'has been having a trouble with a Turkish soldier. It was like this: Djaffir went home to see his wife last night just after sunset, and he found her in a very bad fright. She said that a soldier had come in to rob the house, but she had screamed very loud, and he ran away; but still, she was afraid, for she thought he was hiding somewhere near, and he would come back soon and steal things. Then Djaffir was very angry, for it is a great crime to go into a Moslem house when there is only a woman in it. He went to search, and there he found the soldier hiding in the stable.' I expressed surprise that the soldier should have been so foolish as to enter a Moslem house when there were plenty of Christian ones which he could have doubtless burgled with impunity. 'Ah, but you, see, that soldier, he was drunk! Of course he must have meant to go to a Christian house, but most likely he was too drunk to know where he had gone. So Djaffir seized him, for he was too drunk to defend himself, and beat him and beat him till he was quite tired. Then he just threw
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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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