The Slavs of the war zone . Grape Pickers iii A Wine Press in Dalmatia. [To face page 20. CHAPTER II LIFE IN EASTERN GALICIA There are few places in Europe less known to the ordinarytraveller than Eastern Galicia—where the great plains of Russiameet, across the Dneister, the Carpathian wall that semicirclesHungary. Here it may be said that Austria ends. Galicia isthe largest province, and has the severest climate, in that mostconglomerate of empires. It has long and bitter winters, shortand wet springs, burning summers, and tranquil autumns. Itsinhabitants are nearly one-half Poles an
The Slavs of the war zone . Grape Pickers iii A Wine Press in Dalmatia. [To face page 20. CHAPTER II LIFE IN EASTERN GALICIA There are few places in Europe less known to the ordinarytraveller than Eastern Galicia—where the great plains of Russiameet, across the Dneister, the Carpathian wall that semicirclesHungary. Here it may be said that Austria ends. Galicia isthe largest province, and has the severest climate, in that mostconglomerate of empires. It has long and bitter winters, shortand wet springs, burning summers, and tranquil autumns. Itsinhabitants are nearly one-half Poles and the remainder mostlyRuthenians, these latter predominating as you go eastward tothe Russian frontier. The train, as has been pointed out, from Husiatyn to Lemberg(Lwow) is unquestionably primitive and exceedingly deUberatein action. The Konduktor blows his whistle, the engine shriekshysterically, the Konduktor blows a louder blast, the engine emitsa series of weird noises and gives various signs of an intention tostart, while intending passengers
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