ldier thought and felt at that time. Skoplje had been the centre of
our mediaeval kingdom; in Prilep lived and ruled king Marko, our
national hero; under the walls of. Adrianople King Vukashin, Marko's
father, was killed resisting the Turkish invasion; Scutari was the last
free dominion of the Serbian kings Balshic before universal darkness
covered the whole of the Balkans, except Montenegro. In every direction
the Serbian soldiers faced their own history. Their past glory has been
revived; their heroes of old excited their imagination; many saw them in
visions or in dreams, all imitated them in heroic deeds and in
sufferings.

Here succumbed the Saint King Lazare! exclaimed our soldier in the field
of Kossovo. Here fell the Duke Milosh after he killed the Turkish Sultan
Murad! Here lived Marko of Prilep! From this fortress he protected the
remnants of the Serbian people and their past glory after the fatal
battle of Kossovo! Here on the stones the hoofs of Shiraz, Marko's
cherished horse, are to be seen. There are churches built by King Urosh,
or Stephen, or Milutin, or Dushan, or Lazare! Here on the Mariza River
fell Vukashin with sixty thousand of the most splendid Serbian warriors
defending the freedom of the Balkans. There on Scutari stand lofty
walls constructed by the same King Vukashin. This is the way by which
the Byzantine princesses had come to be the wives of our kings or dukes.
There is the town where King Dushan, in allegiance with Kantakusen and
the Greeks, fought against the first Turkish invaders. On this lake of
Ochrida was a beautiful church with a Serbian archbishopric. That is the
mountain where the _villas_ (fairies) lived and from which they flew
down to help our heroes or to preserve the Serbian down-trodden rights.
In this town King Nemanja met the Crusaders from the West proceeding to
the East and gave them hospitality. In that town our greatest king
proclaimed the famous codex of laws, _Zakonik_, which is comparable with
the best codexes of that kind. Here are the tombs of our patriarchs, who
led and protected the nation during centuries of oppression and slavery.
There are the towers built from the skeletons of the Serbian leaders,
who were slaughtered for their ideals of freedom; and there again is the
spot where were hanged several _voivodas_ and _bishops_. Bones upon
bones, blood upon blood, sin upon sin, heroism upon heroism! Kossovo,
Scutari, Kumanovo, Skoplje, Prilep, Bitolj, Adrianople-