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guest of the State Department, with the advice and 

 support of the Carnegie Endowment. The turn of 

 events necessarily postponed her trip, and before the 

 Great War ended she had passed away. 



She was naturally distressed at the outcome of the Dohruja 

 Treaty of Bucharest, which robbed Bulgaria of south- ^"^ 

 em Dobruja. Toward the Kaiser she was distinctly 

 bitter. The only possibly effective port on the ^gean 

 Sea is Kavala, but that town had been ceded to 

 Greece at Wilhelm's special request, as he wished to 

 make it a "present" to his sister, the Queen of Greece, 

 from whom he had become somewhat estranged. He 

 was always generous — with the property of others ! 

 Now having lost Kavala, Bulgaria would be forced 

 to make an outlet at Porto Lago and build a railway 

 from Philippopolis over the rough Rhodope Moun- 

 tains in order to reach it. It stands, moreover, in an 

 unwholesome swamp facing a very shallow bay, so 

 that a harbor would have to be dredged and land 

 filled in before it could be utilized. Dedeagatch, then 

 the only port of steamer call in Bulgarian Thrace, 

 is an open roadstead without shelter. 



Eleanora had a warm feeling for the sturdy, sober, Bulgarian 

 and industrious peasants of her adopted country, and ■^°"'' '"''^ 

 dilated on their excellent sour milk with the " Bacillus 

 bulgaricus," celebrated by Metchnikoff of the Pasteur 

 Institute, who regarded its use as the chief reason for 

 the national longevity. 



Before leaving Sofia I spent a day on the neighbor- vatraUky 

 ing farm of Stoyan Vatralsky, the most eminent of 

 Bulgarian poets, a tall, handsome, genial man, a 

 Harvard graduate who cherishes pleasant memories 

 of his college days. On the table lay journals like the 



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