This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...Hellas is preparing even now to speak in tones of thunder? The Turks may rely that Kismet is inscrutable; but meantime this much is certain, that in Albania 'nothing succeeds like success.' LETTER XIV. THE REIGN OF TERROR IN' BOSNIA. Arrival of fresh fugitives from Turkish Bosnia. My expedition to visit them. Kamen, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...Hellas is preparing even now to speak in tones of thunder? The Turks may rely that Kismet is inscrutable; but meantime this much is certain, that in Albania 'nothing succeeds like success.' LETTER XIV. THE REIGN OF TERROR IN' BOSNIA. Arrival of fresh fugitives from Turkish Bosnia. My expedition to visit them. Kamen, their glen of refuge. Fearful mortality amongst the fugitives. Austrian shortcomings. Perishing children. Extraordinary quickness of Bosnian and Herzegovinian children in Misslrby's and Ragusan Committee's schools. 'The Slavonic dawn.' The latest victims of the Turk. Cause of the fresh exodus. Results of Mr. Consul Holmes' exhortations to the Vali. Mahometan 'order.' Examination of the victims. Twenty-six villagers driven off to Turkish dungeons and never heard of since. Secret assassination of Christian prisoners in the dungeons of Derbend. Thirteen peasants massacred at Stekerovatz. Two relics of tyranny. The 'Nadjak' of the Bosnian Begs and its uses. An instance of atrocious oppression. Spalato, Dalmatia: July 9. FRESH colony of Bosnian refugees having sought shelter in a lonely mountain glen just on the other side of the Bosnian frontier, to the east of Knin, I have made an expedition to the spot. My object was partly to aid in the distribution of relief for Miss Irby and Miss Johnston's fund, partly to gain particulars of recent Turkish barbarities that had been continually swelling the number of Christian fugitives at this and other points. Leaving Knin and its fertile valley, after a terrible journey under an almost tropical sun across a desert waste of naked limestone ranges--a journey the effects of LETTER XIV. The glen of refuge. A miserable scene. which have considerably delayed this letter--I arrived at the Bosnian border, in company...
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