CHAPTER II.

THE PRELIMINARIES TO THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR.

Prince Czetwertinski--A Romantic Career--His First Commission--A Retrospect--The History of a Noble Pole--From Monte Carlo to Brisbane--A Prince as a Deck Hand on a Schooner--A Bush Tutor--He returns to Europe--The Load of Poverty--Lighter to Bear in Australia--A Big Win at Flemington--School Teaching in Batavia--Back to New South Wales--Death at Wagga--The Vale of Moravia--The Hot Spring--Bulgarian Blanchisseuses--Slavonian Folk-songs--How the Turks sing--A Bulgarian Sámadh--Foley's End--Infuriated Scavengers--A Mysterious Disturbance--Rough-and-tumble Fighting--A Turkish Hercules--Capturing a Prisoner--A Solitary Ride--A Bulgarian Farrier--Back to Sofia--Christmas in the Snow--A Maize Cob for a Christmas Dinner--Orkhanieh to Sofia--A Doctor frozen to Death--Bitter Experiences--Salutary Effects of a Good Dinner 32