bezirksvorsteher

Updated: May 25, 2025

They will simply go on eating pigs till you are tired." The Bezirksvorsteher was annoyed at this, but interested. I said "Get me a horse and a guide, and I will go into Serbia and see." He retorted It was impossible as the frontier was closed, but he hired me the horse and a very black gypsy, a wild enough creature, and I went.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

I was much interested, but as I had brought no baggage could not go further into Serbia. The Mayor gave me a mounted gendarme as escort to the frontier. This impressed the Vishegrad authorities much, as did the fact that I had got across the frontier at all. The Bezirksvorsteher asked at once what I had learnt in Serbia, and if the frontier would soon be open. "I do not know," said I.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

Here is a letter" he pointed to a large pile "for the Bezirksvorsteher of every place. You will present it on your arrival and do nothing till the authorities have arranged for you. The tour will take three weeks, and then you will go back to England." It was a great disappointment to me.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle