Identifier: travelsinslavoni00mack (find matches)
Title: Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: MacKenzie, G. Muir (Georgina Muir), d. 1874 Irby, A. P. (Adelina Paulina), 1833-1911
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Publisher: London : A. Strahan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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cy on her, andchanged both her and the Arab into stone. Manylegends in these countries commemorate the brutahtyof the Moors, including under that name all those 366 BOSNIAN BORDERS. (chap. xxiy. dark-skinned myrmidons wlio followed the Turks intheir plundering career. We were so busy asking questions, hearing stories,and noting marvels, that w^e forgot to look—as duringsome hours of the day we had been wearily andanxiously looking—for the first sign of approachingour goal. Now, before we were aware, we found our-selves under the white walls of a monastery; and, ourArnaout guide clapping spurs to his horse, whoopedout, Behold the Patriarchate ! Those who choose to follow his example, and gallophelter-skelter into the convent, will meet us there at thebeginning of Chapter XXYI. Others who care not tovisit any historical shrine without knowing something ofits history, will find in the next few pages a shortaccount of the Church in Serbia, and of its founder, themetropolitan St. Sava.
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CHAPTER XXV. THE NATIONAL CHUECH OF SERBIA. T\7E have already noticed that statistics respectingthe numbers of the Slavonic inhabitants ofTurkey, are difficult to obtain, and, when obtained, un-worthy of reliance. The statistics of their creeds aremore imperfect still. Returns exist, by way of official,on which the taxes are apportioned; but this verycircumstance involves the numbering of the people with that machinery of bribery and corruption, by whichevery class attempts to escape its share of publicburdens. The Mahometans who do not pay haratch, and whoin one way or another shift most of the taxes off theirshoulders, gratify their pride, at least in conversationwith a stranger, by exaggerating their own numbers ;the rayahs, on whom the weight of taxation devolves,fear to tell how numerous they really are. Then,if you attempt to question the rival creeds as to eachothers numbers, the Mussulman often ignores theChristians altogether ; while a Christian, interrogatedrespecting Mahome

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