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son, whose site is now occupied by the Cafe Astoria; and one's faith in the accuracy of the Eger Museum is rather dimmed by the exhibition of a number of pictures, each of them purporting to give the authentic details of the assassination at Eger of the great Wallenstein, and every picture is quite different from the others.] [Footnote 30: _Macedonia._ London, 1906.] [Footnote 31: This was far too sweeping a statement. Only thirty or forty Orthodox at Prizren--teachers, merchants and others--used to dress in European raiment (with a fez), but from of old the Serbs had a teachers' institute and a seminary--the young men educated there frequently went to Montenegro. And in view of what happened a few years later, Miss Edith Durham must regret that in her book _High Albania_ (London, 1909) she did not confine herself to recording of the men of Prizren that "of one thing the population is determined: that is, that never again shall the land be Serb"; but she adds, on her own account, that in this picturesque town and its neighbourhood the Serbs are engaged in a forlorn hope and that their claims are no better than those of the English on Normandy. Yet if, in her opinion, the Serbs have been rewarded beyond their deserts, she must acknowledge that they are not wholly undeserving--in the days of her cherished Albanians it was necessary for a Catholic inhabitant to furnish himself with a loaded revolver before guiding her through the streets of Djakovica.] [Footnote 32: Cf. _Les Albanais en Vieille-Serbie et dans le Sandjak de Novi-Bazar_. Paris, 1913.] [Footnote 33: He worked for a long time at the monastery of Hopovo, among the Syrmian hills, and there his collection of books, in the two rooms just as he left them, was naturally treasured. Half of them were stolen in the course of this last war by the Austrians.] [Footnote 34: _Geschichte der Franzfelder Gemeinde._ Pan[vc]evo, 1893.] [Footnote 35: This was originally as much land as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day. Until the introduction of the French metrical system this measurement was used in Austria. It still survives there, a "joch" or yoke being equivalent to 5754.6 square metres, or about 1.4 English acres. The Hungarian joch is three-quarters the size of this.] III BUILDING
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