[8] Not all the munitions of war secretly brought into the country came through Bulgaria. Certain insurgent leaders who spoke Greek without a foreign accent worked in Greece, purchasing arms with the connivance of the Greek authorities under the pretext that they were leaders of Greek bands, hostile to the Bulgarians; and much dynamite was imported through the Turkish Custom-house at Salonica. [9] Beside this record of the Turks stands a most dastardly deed on the part of the insurgents. Retiring from Nevaska a party of them laid a diligent trail to a spot in the mountains where they carefully prepared a lunch, poisoning the _Mastica_ with arsenic, and leaving several bottles of it on the ground, to appear as if the band had left hurriedly at the approach of the Turks. This was told me in person by Tchakalaroff, the voivoda who led the band. [10] The italics are the author’s. [11] I have lost the name. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Extensive research revealed that the Map of the Balkans does not exist in this edition of this book. The list on page 82 is described as a partial list; items 7 and 8 have apparently been excluded and do not appear in any available edition of this book. The city of Prilep is referred to as Prelip in this book and the original spelling has been retained. Damian Grueff is sometimes referred to as Damien Grueff in the original. His actual name, Damian Grueff, has been standardized in this eBook. In Chapter V, paragraph 3, the chemical symbol for water is depicted as H_{2}O. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Balkan Trail, by Frederick Moore