son, whose site is
now occupied by the Cafe Astoria; and one's faith in the
accuracy of the Eger Museum is rather dimmed by the
exhibition of a number of pictures, each of them purporting
to give the authentic details of the assassination at Eger of
the great Wallenstein, and every picture is quite different
from the others.]
[Footnote 30: _Macedonia._ London, 1906.]
[Footnote 31: This was far too sweeping a statement. Only
thirty or forty Orthodox at Prizren--teachers, merchants and
others--used to dress in European raiment (with a fez), but
from of old the Serbs had a teachers' institute and a
seminary--the young men educated there frequently went to
Montenegro. And in view of what happened a few years later,
Miss Edith Durham must regret that in her book _High Albania_
(London, 1909) she did not confine herself to recording of
the men of Prizren that "of one thing the population is
determined: that is, that never again shall the land be
Serb"; but she adds, on her own account, that in this
picturesque town and its neighbourhood the Serbs are engaged
in a forlorn hope and that their claims are no better than
those of the English on Normandy. Yet if, in her opinion, the
Serbs have been rewarded beyond their deserts, she must
acknowledge that they are not wholly undeserving--in the days
of her cherished Albanians it was necessary for a Catholic
inhabitant to furnish himself with a loaded revolver before
guiding her through the streets of Djakovica.]
[Footnote 32: Cf. _Les Albanais en Vieille-Serbie et dans le
Sandjak de Novi-Bazar_. Paris, 1913.]
[Footnote 33: He worked for a long time at the monastery of
Hopovo, among the Syrmian hills, and there his collection of
books, in the two rooms just as he left them, was naturally
treasured. Half of them were stolen in the course of this
last war by the Austrians.]
[Footnote 34: _Geschichte der Franzfelder Gemeinde._
Pan[vc]evo, 1893.]
[Footnote 35: This was originally as much land as a yoke of
oxen could plough in a day. Until the introduction of the
French metrical system this measurement was used in Austria.
It still survives there, a "joch" or yoke being equivalent to
5754.6 square metres, or about 1.4 English acres. The
Hungarian joch is three-quarters the size of this.]
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