. The Burton Holmes lectures;. 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, 18
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. 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^^^^^^^^^^!^^^ OURDEPARTLRKUNDER ESCO THE WONDERS OF THESSALY oo
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