The Days of a Man 1:1914 



fastened together at the top with a baby swung below, 

 but high enough to be out of reach of inquisitive dogs 

 or goats. Then, somewhere in the field, would be a 

 woman leading a buffalo while another behind her 

 guided the plow. 



Livenovo, a wretched burned adobe village huddled 

 about a fine spring, came next on the road. Here we 

 encountered many shepherds accompanied by savage, 

 wolf-like dogs guarding primitive sheep. ^ Near by was 

 a large field of the opium poppy in full bloom, the 

 first I had ever seen. In the neighborhood we met 

 a band of gypsies, the one race which seems never to 

 change its looks or ways whatever the nature of its en- 

 vironment. Farther on we passed the burned home of 

 the noted outlaw, Sandansky. It will be remembered 

 Sandansky that some years ago a Salonica missionary. Miss Ellen 

 Maria Stone of Chelsea, Massachusetts, was holding 

 summer school near Dzumaia when Sandansky, 

 comatadji,^ brigand, or patriot, kidnaped and kept 

 her a prisoner until he received from Boston upward 

 of ^60,000 as ransom. With this money he built a 



^ Mr. Sydney N. Hillyard, Stanford, ex-'i i, calls my attention to the important 

 fact that no fine animal breeds have ever been developed in war-swept regions, 

 the process of selection demanding patient, uninterrupted attention. 



' At that time certain Bulgarian groups known as comatadji were active 

 throughout Macedonia in factious opposition to Turkey. Most of these worked 

 for the independence of Macedonia or for the union of Macedonia with Bulgaria, 

 while others, the Andartes, operated in the interest of Greece. The population of 

 Macedonia, though mainly Bulgarian, was admittedly greatly mixed. Indeed, 

 there is no such thing as a pure breed in southeastern Europe, or for that matter 

 in any other part of the Continent. The water front of Macedonia, as elsewhere 

 along the eastern Mediterranean, is filled with the race which replaced and 

 succeeded the ancient Greeks of Hellas (from whom they are in some degree 

 descended), just as the Italians have occupied the littorals farther west. Salonica 

 — OeacroKovLicTi — the principal town, held a majority of Greeks, though many 

 Turks as well, and great numbers of Spanish Jews long since expelled from Bar- 

 celona. Kavala, the next seaport, is also largely Greek, but the back country of 

 both towns is mainly Bulgarian. 



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and Miss 

 Stone 



