170 Timehri. 



The lecturer then said that to amuse them he would tell them some- 

 thiug about the social life of the Bulgarians. They married only for 

 interest and on many occasions the man did not see his future wife until 

 after he was married to her. These marriages were arranged not that 

 the women should give the men anything but that the parents of the 

 girls should be paid by the parents of the boy before they were given 

 over. He compared that with the selling of a cow, because in nearly 

 every instance the price paid, which was about $20, was not more than 

 could buy a cow. The men were married very young, but the women 

 very old and sometimes a boy of thirteen or fourteen married a woman of 

 forty. Sometimes persons on visiting their houses who were not well- 

 acquainted with them would ask the boy, is that your mother ? only to 

 get the answer that she was his wife. He would not lose the opportu- 

 nity of saying how the war came about and when he began his lecture he 

 did not intend to speak of the barbarites of the Germans, but he felt that 

 if he did not do so he could not sleep well, so he spoke not only to give 

 satisfaction to them but to himself. 



He then spoke of the murder on the 5th February, 1911, of the 

 servant of the German Legation at Chili by the Secretary of the Lega- 

 tion which he said was done in order to bring about war to seize a Chilian 

 island and referred to it as the ingenuity of the Germans to make crime 

 for grasping territory. 



Concluding he said that he felt it a great honour to be invited to 

 lecture to them that evening and thanked His Excellency who was so 

 noble as to give his patronage at his first lecture and to be again present 

 that evening. When he went back to his native land and met his 

 brothers he would tell them of the honour he had met with around the 

 world and in British Guiana. He would advise the men of his race to 

 tight until the last of them was left, because their fight gave them reputa- 

 tion among all civilised nations aud if they did their part their reputation 

 would remain. He further thanked the audience for their kind 

 attention. 



In moving a vote of thanks, to the lecturer, His Grace the Arch- 

 bishop said that for ouce in their lives they had seen a representative of 

 that small but gallant nation which had stood out prominently and had 

 been making history in their own times and for that they were exceed- 

 ingly grateful. He proposed to convey the thanks of the audieuce to 

 Capt. Dimitrijevich for the lecture and to say that they were exceedingly 

 glad that they had had the pleasure to listen to him. (Cheers). 



The vote was seconded by Sir Charles Cox. 



His Excellency said that it seemed almost superfluous to put the 

 motion to the vote because they had voted twice already. Although he 

 had been in the Near East he had never met any Serbian before, neither 

 had he seen any Bulgarians. Serbia had always had the reputation of 

 being a brave fighting nation. That nation had not always fought against 



