trian maps, the most trustworthy that
have been made, are obviously Slavic. Down through Thrace, almost to
Constantinople, over to a few miles outside Saloniki, sweeping over
almost into the mountains of Albania, up to Montenegro, the people
are Slavic.

The Slavs, again, are subdivided into two families: Serbs and
Bulgars. And here it is more difficult to distinguish the dividing
line, for although there is a marked difference between the
characteristics of the two peoples, both physical and temperamental,
so nearly alike are their languages that speech forms no sure guide
to distinguishing, especially in Macedonia, where dialects vary with
a day's travel. The trend of popular feeling seems the only guide.

The main population west of the Struma and nearly up to Saloniki are
Serb, descendants of the Serbs, who were the inhabitants of the old
Serb Kingdom and Empire in that region. In Thrace and east of the
Struma the people are Bulgars.

Next to the Slavs in importance come the Turks, but these are nowhere
found in a solid mass; they are scattered all over the peninsula, and
even up into Bosnia and Herzegovina in Austria. Nowhere are they more
numerous than in northern Bulgaria, along the banks of the Danube, and
in the seaport cities on the Black Sea--Varna and Bourgas. The
Bulgarian census figures give their number as about half a million in
Bulgaria proper--about a seventh of the total population. Bulgaria,
though she suffered most from the oppression and fanatical outbursts
of the Turks in the old days, has always been the most tolerant.
Because of this there was comparatively little emigration of the
Turkish population after freedom gave the Christian majority control.
Serbia reports only about 14,000 in her territory, but this is
probably an underestimate. Down in Macedonia and southern Thrace the
Turkish element is naturally very strong, increasing in mass toward
Constantinople.

Of the minor race divisions the Albanians deserve first mention, not
only because of their number, but because of their being more
concentrated within a certain territory, which gives them some
political significance. Though they have certain fine primitive
qualities, they are not much higher in the scale of intelligence and
civilization than were our North American Indians in the early days
of our history. It is supposed that they are the direct descendants
of the ancient Illyrians; if this be so, they have certainly not
develope