With the Serbs in Macedonia

190 WITH THE SERBS IN MACEDONIA
equivalent of ''CAT cat " was a sight worth
going many miles to see.
Altogether our impression of the Moslems in
not half bad/'
Macedonia was that they were ''
Man and woman, in spite of the Turks' worldwide
reputation for laziness, they led fairly
industrious lives ; though, no doubt, their
donkeys worked hardest of all. They were
cleaner on the whole than the other Mace-
donians, and from one thing and another,
including the fact that one often saw a Turkish
woman riding the ubiquitous donkey while her
lord and master walked, we came to the conclusion
that they treated their womenfolk
better, in spite of the veils. But how their
did smell !
villages
They were far less extortionate for grapes,
tomatoes, and melons than the Greeks, and
though technically enemies they seldom appeared
to bear us any ill-will. Possibly this
may have been Turkish cunning, but they were
certainly ready to go out of their way
at all
times to assist us.
To be a Turkish priest in Macedonia seems to
be even less profitable than to be a curate of the
Church of England, though it is a very popular
job. The recognized rate of pay in the villages
was thirty-five kilos of maize from each house
per year if there were children, and half that
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