Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . on theServian side is the tiny town of Poretch,where the brave shepherds and swine-herds fought the Turk, against whoseoppression they had risen, until theywere overwhelmed by numbers, andtheir leader, Hadji Nikolos, lost hishead. The Austria
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . on theServian side is the tiny town of Poretch,where the brave shepherds and swine-herds fought the Turk, against whoseoppression they had risen, until theywere overwhelmed by numbers, andtheir leader, Hadji Nikolos, lost hishead. The Austrians point out withpride tlie cave on the tremendous flankof Mt. Choukourou, where, two cen-turies ago, an Austrian general, at thehead of seven hundred men, all thatwas left to him of a goodly army, sus-tained a thr(!e months siege againstlarge Turkish forces. This cave isperched high above the road at a pointwhere it absolutely commands it, andthe government of to-day, realizing itsimportance, has had it fortified andfurnished with walls pierced by loop-holes. Trajan fought his way through these defiles in the very infancy of theChristian era; and in memory of hisfirst splendid campaign ngainst theDacians he carved in the solid rockthe letters, some of which are still visi-ble, and which, by their very grandilo-quence, offer a mournful commentary. HUNGARIAN TYPES. on the fleeting nature of human great-ness. Little did he think when hiseyes rested lovingly on this inscription,beginning: — Imp. CcES. D. NervcB Filius Germ. Pont. Maximus, that Time, with profane hand, wouldwipe out the memory of many of hisglories and would undo all the workthat he had done. 716 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE. A Journey tlu-ough Roumania in War Time. — A Khan. —Its Advantages and Disadvantages. — PrimitiveLifeof the Villagers. —On tlie Great Plains. — The Water AVells. — The Approaches to Biicliavest.—Roumanian Legends. — The Frontier of Europe. —
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