Index 207 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE A Balkan Peasant _Frontispiece_ Trajan's Column in Rome 7 The Walls of Constantinople from the Seven Towers 10 Sancta Sophia, Constantinople 21 King Peter of Serbia 28 King Nicolas of Montenegro 33 Montenegrin Troops: Weekly Drill and Inspection of Weapons 35 The King of Roumania 39 The Shipka Pass 42 King Ferdinand of Bulgaria 46 King Ferdinand's Bodyguard 48 Bulgarian Infantry 53 Bulgarian Troops leaving Sofia 60 General Demetrieff, the Conqueror at Lule Burgas 69 Adrianople: A General View 76 Roumanian Soldiers in Bucharest 85 Adrianople: View looking across the Great Bridge 88 General View of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 92 Sofia: Commercial Road from Commercial Square 101 Bucharest: The Roumanian House of Representatives 108 General Savoff 117 Bulgarian Infantry 124 Ox Transport in the Balkans 133 A Balkan Peasant Woman 136 A Bagpiper 140 Some Serbian Peasants 149 General View of Sofia 156 Bucharest 161 A Bulgarian Farm 166 Albanian Tribesmen 176 Greek Infantry 181 Podgorica, upon the Albanian Frontier 188 _Sketch Map on page xii._ [Illustration: SKETCH MAP OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA] THE BALKAN PENINSULA CHAPTER I THE VEXED BALKANS