CHRISTIAN PEASANTS AT A BUTCHER-SHOP : 



Photo by Felix J. Koch 

 SAEONICA 



Meat is sold already cooked as well as raw. Note the distaff on the left held by a Bulgarian 

 woman, who is busily spinning as she walks to market (see page 1130) 



triots do not count only the real Greeks 

 as members of their party. They claim 

 the Vlachs, the Orthodox Albanians, and 

 the Bulgarians who do not adhere to the 

 Bulgarian Church as Greeks, and call 

 them "Vlachophone," "Albanophone," 

 and "Bulgarophone" Greeks. In a word, 

 they consider that all the Macedonians 

 who have not joined the "Schismatic" 

 Bulgarian Church, except the Servians in 

 the extreme north, are adherents of the 

 Greek party and of the "Grand Idea." 

 So that, apart from all thought of con- 

 quest, they wish to prove that the greater 

 part of Macedonia is a Greek land. 



As for the actual numbers of the 

 Greeks, the statistics vary considerably — 

 from 50,000 to 700,000 in fact ; but it is 

 'Only the coastline and southwestern dis- 

 tricts that can be regarded as purely or 

 even prevalently Hellenic. Their num- 

 bers probably amount to about 300,000. 



THE BULGARIANS OF MACEDONIA ARE 

 TRUTHEUE AND PRACTICAE 



The Bulgarians are a curious people 

 in many ways, and different from all 



the other Balkan races. They are very 

 hard working, very energetic, and of 

 great staying power. They are not bril- 

 liant, certainly less clever than either the 

 Greeks or the Vlachs, and not gifted 

 with a keen commercial instinct. But 

 as farmers and peasants they are admir- 

 able, and they are found all over the 

 Balkan Peninsula, from Bucharest to 

 Athens, and from Constantinople to Bel- 

 grade, employed in all kinds of work 

 (see pages 11 06 and 1117). 



They are not yet highly civilized, but 

 they have shown that under favorable 

 conditions they are capable of astonish- 

 ing progress. They are silent, unexpan- 

 sive, some people might say sullen ; but 

 they have one great merit, rare, unfor- 

 tunately among the peoples of South- 

 eastern Europe — they are truthful. 



They appreciate the value of education 

 most highly, but they are thoroughly 

 practical. They do not talk about their 

 glorious ancestors like the Greeks or the 

 Serbs ; they think of the present and the 

 future. If they have not great historic 

 traditions, they are endowed with solid 



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