. Travels and politics in the Near East. down onthe way out. Chancing to go over to Prinkipo on Day, the principal Greek festival of the island,we nearly shared a similar fate. Instead of putting onextra boats, as is usual in other countries at holiday times,the steamboat company crowded hundreds of excur-sionists on to a wretched old tub, until the deck wasalmost level with the water. On arrival, however, we werepartially compensated for this experience by the scenesround the Monastery of St. George. Here groups ofpeasants from the islands in the Marmara, and fromthe Bithvnian coas
. Travels and politics in the Near East. down onthe way out. Chancing to go over to Prinkipo on Day, the principal Greek festival of the island,we nearly shared a similar fate. Instead of putting onextra boats, as is usual in other countries at holiday times,the steamboat company crowded hundreds of excur-sionists on to a wretched old tub, until the deck wasalmost level with the water. On arrival, however, we werepartially compensated for this experience by the scenesround the Monastery of St. George. Here groups ofpeasants from the islands in the Marmara, and fromthe Bithvnian coast, were dancing the horci in the mostsolemn fashion. The dancers were all men, who stood ina circle with a fiddler in the middle, while the women, incurious baggv trousers of all the colours of the rainbow,stood looking on. Prinkipo has a rival in Phanaraki, a 430 in the Near East place on the Asiatic coast, the home of a considerableEuropean colony in summer. Here on Fridays one maysit under the trees and observe the mediaeval and the. RUSSIAN MOXUMENT, SAX STEFAXO. (From a Photo, by Mr. F. S. modern sides of Oriental life at the same moment—theveiled Turkish ladies being drawn about in long, creakingbullock waggons, and the smart Armenian bicyclists 431 Travels and Politics in the Near East equally proud of their European machines and theirParisian French. San Stefano, famous in history as thescene of the abortive Treaty and as the nearest point toConstantinople which the Russians have yet reached,possesses the advantage of direct railwav communicationand is prettily situated on the Marmara. The Treatyhouse is now, like the Treaty itself, a thing of the the last earthquake the ruins alone remain to remindthe passer-by of what promised to be the most remark-able event in the story of the Balkan Peninsula. Out inthe waste plain beyond San Stefano the Russians haveerected a monument, the scaffolding of which was still upwhen we visited it, nominally to the me
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