Identifier: macedoniapleafor00goff (find matches)
Title: Macedonia, a plea for the primitive
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Goff, A Fawcett, Hugh Alderson
Subjects: Macedonia -- Description and travel Macedonia
Publisher: London : John Lane New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nes compactnesswith the picturesque. The streets, if such theymay be termed, are narrow, cobbled and oftensteep. Winding and twisting in labyrinthinefashion, in some places they are reduced to merealleys between the houses, and at others, expandinto wide open spaces. Projecting upper stories,sometimes so close as to invite hand-shakingacross the street—though it cannot be said thatthis is a custom in which the native indulges——afford a dark and sinister contrast to the central place or square where the inhabitants of thevillage assemble to draw water at the well. Themysteriousness and obscurity of the narrowstreets is enhanced at night by the absence ofany system of lighting. At dusk, save for a fewwayfarers, the streets become the haunt of wilddogs and jackals, who, led by hunger, scavenge inall directions for discarded fragments or putre-fied refuse. These beasts, so thoroughly wolfishin appearance, bear many of the characteristicsof that animal and, as they frequently hunt in
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OLD IIOUSEy, ANO VII.LAGK,MACKDOMA VILLAGES 45 packs, an encounter with them is apt to provea dangerous experience. The villages in the plains are connected bysandy and uneven tracks—those in the hills bycircuitous mountain paths cunningly cut roundthe peaks and across gully-heads. The latter donot permit of any means of transport except thatof the ubiquitous and hardly-used donkey and,even on the plains, wheeled transport is a luxuryconfined to the few. Here and there, as atKavalla, there are remains of fine pave tracks,relics of Roman and Byzantine enterprise, whichhave resisted, in a marvellous manner, the wildmountain torrents of the rainy season. A form of our old feudal system is still in voguein Macedonia ; for each village is a communityunto itself. Recognizing no controlling authoritysuch as a district council, most hamlets are pre-sided over by a headman—usually the wealth-iest and oldest inhabitant or village priest—who exercises considerable influence over hislittle

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