ning and among
the Ragusan poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
the word was used to signify a shepherd. The Venetians
employed the word Morlacchi as a term of mockery, because it
indicated people of the mountains, backward people. And this
derogatory connotation has clung to it, so that to-day the
Morlaks, who after all are Croats and Serbs, do not like to
be called by that name.]

[Footnote 22: The Serbian Archbishopric of Pe['c], which
Du[vs]an at his coronation had raised to the Patriarchate,
was for the time being left intact.]

[Footnote 23: This is a Pomak song. The Pomaks are the
descendants of those who in the seventeenth century (perhaps
also earlier) were forcibly converted to Islam. Their
folk-songs, customs and language are Bulgarian. They speak
the purest Bulgarian, save that the men count with Turkish
numerals. (The women, who can count up to 100, use the
Bulgarian language.) The Pomaks live for the most part in the
Rhodope Mountains and in the Lovac district of northern
Bulgaria. They are endowed, as a rule, with meagre
intelligence, so that the educational endeavours of the
Bulgarian Government had perforce to be abandoned, since very
few of these reluctant pupils ever left the lowest class. The
most exalted situation they aspire to is to serve as clerks
to Muhammedan priests. Nevertheless, they despise the Turks
and call their language the language of pigs.]

[Footnote 24: To-day in Serbia when the King addresses his
people, when the deputies address the Parliament, the mayor
his fellow-citizens, the priest his parishioners, the officer
his men--all of them begin with the words "Moja brat[vc]o!"
["My brothers!"]]

[Footnote 25: Cf. _Baranja multja es jelenje_, 2 vols., by
Francis Varady. Pecuj, 1898.]

[Footnote 26: _Die suedslavischen Literaturen._ Leipzig,
1908.]

[Footnote 27: Cf. _Le Balkan Slave_, by Charles Loiseau.
Paris, 1898.]

[Footnote 28: _La Dalmazia._ Florence, 1915.]

[Footnote 29: There is in the museum at Eger in
Czecho-Slovakia a small painting of Brankovi['c] dated 1711.
It depicts him standing pensively outside a tent, clad in a
red and yellow Turkish costume and with a beard that reaches
to his knees. On the other hand, it seems to be established
that he was an ordinary inmate of the pri