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Show Eastern Ideas of Religion. In describing the curious commingling comming-ling of religions in Macedonia and other pths of the Dalkans a traveler writes: "I found an educated Mohammedan Moham-medan at Serajevo who had been In the Austrian government service. He was descended from a notable family of Bogomlls. those early Protestants Pro-testants who, at the conquest, became the most fanatical of Mohammedans. My friend and I engaged this man as dragoman and started out with him on the first day with a modest lunch, largely of bam and whisky, with suitable suit-able food for the true believer. We bashfully produced the ham, fearing to offend him, but to our great disgust ho proved even fonder of the ham than ourselves, as also the whisky. It appeared that, though a Mohammedan, ho was what he called liberal. I have known an Albanian chief, nominally nomi-nally a Mahammedan, who ' attended the mosque on occasion, but also maintained main-tained In the precincts of one of his ca6tles a small orthodox monastery, which guarded a medieval Christian chapel, and here he maintained a Greek monk in virtual captivity." |