ani (who died
out in those parts about five to six hundred years ago and were not
Magyars). In the census of twenty years ago the Bunjevci were called
Serbo-Croats, in accordance with a monograph, "Sabotca Varosh
Toertenete," in which Professor Ivanji, a Magyar, said they were simply
Catholic Serbs. In the census of 1910 the Bunjevci are put under the
heading "Egyebek," which means "miscellaneous."

This census juggling by the Magyars was one of their milder methods of
administration. The term Serbo-Croat came to be avoided, and, so that
foreigners should be misled, the Yugoslavs in Baranja were classified
as Serbs, Croats, Illyrians, [vS]okci, Bunjevci, Dalmatians and so
forth. The [vS]okci, who were also converted in the eighteenth century
to the Roman Catholic Church, are mostly found to-day in Baranja. The
name by which they are known is derived from the Serbo-Croatian word
_[vs]aka_, the palm of the hand, and refers to the fact that the
Catholics cross themselves with the open hand, whereas the Orthodox
join the tips of the thumb and first two fingers. The [vS]okci are
considered a weaker people than the Bunjevci; the mothers--they say it
is love--are often so weak that they allow their children to do
anything they like at home, and would not think of remonstrating with
them if they wear their caps in church. Among the [vS]okci none is of
a higher than the peasant class, for which reason their priests have
usually been Magyars. He who ministers to the village of Szalanta,
however, is a Croatian poet. The mayor of that village--I believe a
typical specimen of the [vS]okci--was a ragged, humorous-looking
person with a very bushy moustache. He was in remarkable contrast with
the young Magyar schoolmaster, whose remuneration is largely in kind.
This gentleman looked as if he would be well content if the parents of
his children sent him not eggs, butter and chickens, but armfuls of
flowers. A month before the Hungarian revolution in 1918 an order had
come from Buda-Pest to the effect that the lowest class in a school
was to receive instruction solely in its own language, but the
Hungarian Republic ordered that no history was to be taught, since it
praises kings.

As for the Kra[vs]ovani, who inhabit five villages of the mining
district of Resica in Caras-Severin, the eastern county of the Banat,
they also were converted by Maria Theresa, in whose time they fled
from Montenegro, Macedonia and the Bulgarian frontier. Gr