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these Roumanian emigrants called their village Mihailovac, after the
name of Michael, the Prince's son. This village is the birthplace of our
friend Dr. Athanasius, whose sentiments appear to have placed him in a
minority of one. When his pamphlet came into the hands of Jorge
Korni['c], the mayor of Mihailovac and a Roumanian by origin, he brought
it to the prefect at Negotin saying that he wished to have nothing to do
"with any devil's work."

As Dr. Athanasius and his chauvinist friends give a pretty lurid picture
of the Roumanian villager who lives in Serbia, I visited a few places
where the population is wholly Roumanian or Serbo-Roumanian. The 766
inhabitants of Ostralje are all of Roumanian descent, the mayor being
one Velimir Mi[vs]kovi['c], a sergeant of reserves who has been
transferred from the army in order to carry on his municipal duties. All
the inhabitants speak Serbian and Vlach. "We were always Serbs," they
said. "Nobody told us that we had migrated to this place." And amongst
those who assembled to talk with us at the schoolmaster's house there
was only one who, in the Roumanian fashion, had drawn his socks over his
white trousers. The 2221 inhabitants of the village of Grljan are about
two-thirds of Roumanian and one-third of Serbian origin. Formerly they
each had their own part of the village, but now they are intermingled
both in the village and in the cemetery. They intermarry freely; thus
Jon Jonovi['c], the most notable person, who used to represent this
district in the Skup[vs]tina at Belgrade, has three Serbian
daughters-in-law. He was a member of the Opposition Liberal group of
Ribarac. "And did you ever request that your fellow-countrymen should
have their own Roumanian schools and churches?" we asked. This is one of
the chief demands of Dr. Athanasius. "I was not the only Roumanian who
was a deputy," said the old man of the furrowed face. "There was Novak
Dobromirovi['c] of Zlot; there was Jorge Stankovi['c], for instance; but
we never thought of asking for such a thing, since we had no need for
it." The son of the wealthy Sima Yovanovi['c] at Bor observed with a
smile that the first business of Roumanian schools would have to be the
teaching of Roumanian. "My father sent me to be educated at Vienna," he
said, "and when I met some boys from Bucharest we found that our
language was so different that we had to talk to one another in German.
And now when a commercial traveller comes