Trouble in the Balkans,
J. Booth
 

CONTENTS
 

PART I. - BULGARIA, 1903.,
 CHAP.                                     PAGE
    I. ...........................................   1
   II. ........................................... 16
  III. ........................................... 34
  IV. ........................................... 49
   V. ........................................... 64
  VI. ........................................... 83
 VII. ........................................... 99
 

PART II. - MACEDONIA, 1904.
 CHAP.                                     PAGE
 VIII. ........................................... 118
   IX.  ........................................... 134
    X.  ........................................... 147
   XI.  ........................................... 166
  XII.  ........................................... 181
 XIII.  ........................................... 193
 XIV.  ........................................... 213
  XV ............................................. 222
 XVI.  ........................................... 240
XVII.  ........................................... 257




 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Main street, Djuma (coloured).... Frontispiece
A sing-song at sea....... 3
A smiling fat man sang heartily...... 9
Sofia types......... 17
The rugged fellows filed past the venerable Father and kissed a little cross which he held up to them.. Facing p. 18
Tartarcheff sat and talked quietly.... ,, 20
In a Bloomsbury sitting-room...... ,, 22
Cooking supper. Dragaleski Monastery..... 29
"Antonio". 37
A grinning peasant....... 42
An insurgents' haunt and the frontier post at Guishevo .... Facing p. 46
He read, on one note, the proclamation of Martial Law.. 55
The Barnacle and Khadym Most.... Facing p. 56
Mountain battery on the march... ,, 88
A Bulgarian funeral.....,, 90
A Bulgarian cemetery (coloured)... ,, 92
Market folk......... 97
In a dark shed was a bullock upside down.... 101
Down five hundred feet of toboggan shute.. Facing p. 108
Round a rough table, huddled a group of men.... 111
Santa Quaranta........ 127
"I am Engelish I am al-right."...... 131
An Ephzon-drill order...... Facing p. 140
A street in Salonica........ 149
Abdul.......... 151
The old and new gendarmerie...... 159



XII
 

Anatolians..... 173
Gentleman. Joe.... Facing p. 178
Map - Journey from Uskub to Djumna ........ 181
The collector.... 183
To the haphazard beating of two large drums a line of men swung and leapt... 187
A "konak" .......... 193
The blue-eyed Bulgarian and "Pope" Damien ..... 203
For five minutes our fate hung in the balance....... Facing p. 204
Schlummerlied.... 208
Thrust a great gaudy revolver into the American's face Facing p. 210
A " Vlach" ......... 215
A wayside fountain (coloured). ........... Facing. p. 216
One of them jumped forward and demanded passports ......... 219
Macedonian plough and harrow ........ 223
Bathing under guard... Facing p. 234
"Ce n'est pas ma faute!.... 237
Kremen........ 245
Clutched it in both cotton-gloved hands and pulled......... 250
The colonel in sight...... 259
Turkish women....... 261
The Dardanelles (coloured)...... Facing p. 264
Threshing at Thymbra... 271

And others throughout the text.



Map of Balkan Peninsula ........ Facing p. 1

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