ession of what he had seen in the bearing of
Vanka Parmenof towards his young wife gave him for the first
time a clear and definite desire to exchange the burdensome,
idle, artificial, selfish existence which he led, for the
laborious, simple, pure, and delightful life of the peasantry.

The elder, who had been sitting with him, had already gone home;
the neighbouring villagers were wending their way indoors; while
those who lived at a distance were preparing to spend the night
in the meadow, and getting ready for supper.

Levin, without being seen, still lay on the hay, looking,
listening, and thinking. The peasantry, gathered on the prairie,
scarcely slept throughout the short summer night. At first there
were gay gossip and laughter while everybody was eating; then
followed songs and jests.

All the long, laborious day had left no trace upon them, except
of its happiness....

The Bulgarian peasants are indeed very close to the Russians of the
south, where there has been a mixture of Tartar blood. Simple,
laborious, religious, frugal, they deserve better than to be food for
powder.

INDEX

Adrianople, 88
Aegean Sea, 16, 151
Albania, 134
Arjenli, 114

Balkan Mountains, 150
Baltic shores, the, 16
Banki, 153
Black Sea, 16, 150
Bourgas, 20, 161
Bulair, 136
Burgas, 150

Chatalja, 114

Danube, 39
Dardanelles, 145

Epirus, 134
Ermenikioi, 114

Gabrovo, 155

Hissar, 153

Jambouli, 20
Janina, 134

Kalofer, 155
Karlovo, 155
Kasilagatch, 67
Kastoria, 67
Kirk Kilisse, 67, 111
Klissoura, 155
Koprivchtitza, 155
Kotel, 155
Kustendji, 16

Macedonia, 134, 145
Maritza River, 148
Marmora, Sea of, 19, 145
Meritchleri, 153
Monastir, 67
Mustapha Pasha, 67, 108

Nisch, 67
Nish in Servia, near the border of Bulgaria, 21
Novo-grad, 18

Panaguiourichte, 155
Philippopolis, 18, 67, 154
Pirdop, 155
Preslav--now in ruins, 54

Rhodope Mountains, 59, 150
Roumania, 150
Roustchouk, 67

Salonica, 145
Samokov, 155
Sandjaks, 67
Schumla, 18, 33
Scutari, 134
Servia, 150
Shipka Pass, 96
Silistra, 150
Silivri, 114
Sliven, 67, 153, 155
Sofia, 22, 67, 77, 153
Sopot, 155
Stara Zagora, 106, 154
Strou