The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.
I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Tu… - Edith Durham
I shall speak only of the part I have stayed in- the districts of Lakes Ochrida and Presba. Here there are Greeks, Slavs, Albanians, and Vlahs. Of Tu…
- Edith Durham
The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first on… - Edith Durham
The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first on…
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever." - Edith Durham
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords. - Edith Durham
There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
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