. The Burton Holmes lectures;. retan question had ceased to be a local issue ; it hadbecome the concern of the great military powers of international fleet then instituted a blockade of Crete,while the cabinets of Europe busied themselves sendingnotes at one time to the sultan and at another to KingGeorge, meantime quarreling with one another as to thepolicy to be adopted to preserve peace. Meantime the Greeks, remembering their glorious expul-sion of the Turk from Greece in 1822, began to burn with adesire to strike again at their old-time enemy, the powerthat had held them three ce
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. retan question had ceased to be a local issue ; it hadbecome the concern of the great military powers of international fleet then instituted a blockade of Crete,while the cabinets of Europe busied themselves sendingnotes at one time to the sultan and at another to KingGeorge, meantime quarreling with one another as to thepolicy to be adopted to preserve peace. Meantime the Greeks, remembering their glorious expul-sion of the Turk from Greece in 1822, began to burn with adesire to strike again at their old-time enemy, the powerthat had held them three centuries in bondage, and that stillheld in chains numberless lands and cities whose inhabitantsare Greek in race, Greek in spirit, and, above all, Greek inreligion. Not only Crete, but the islands of the iEgean, theshores of Asia Minor, and the provinces of Epirus andMacedonia, are peopled by Greeks under the domination ofthe sultan. The spirit or Pan-Hellenism, dormant for atime, was thoroughly awakened by the events in Mil S WH J< )N I OR M AN^ DAM 2 C2 THE WONDERS OF THESSALY The Greeks of Greece believed their brothers, the so-calledSlave-Greeks in all the lands just mentioned, ready forrevolt. It was thought that King George had only to applythe torch and a great coniiagration would break out, con-sume the flimsy structure of Turkish authority, and expandmodern Hellas to the limits already reached by the Hellenicspeech and the Hellenic faith. Accordingly King Georgesgovernment was forced by public clamor to mobilize thearmy on the plain of Thessaly. But in June, 1896, the summer before the war, we foundon the future Thessalian battle-ground, only the NomadVlachs, shepherds of the region. An old chief bids us visitthe encampment of his clan. The Vlachs are a Latin-speaking race — Vlach being a term applied in the old daysto all people inhabiting the Roman Province at the time of the decline of the last Empire. Even to-day they persist in calling them- ^ l
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