S. G. B. St. Clair, and Charles A. Brophy

CHAPTER I. RAYAH VILLAGES OF BULGARIA.  First aspect - The village public - An interior - The gipsy quarter - Habits of the gipsies - 'Notice to quit.'
CHAPTER II. RAYAH VILLAGES OF BULGARIA. (Continued.)  The traveller's reception - Family meal -- Bulgarian features and physique - Ordinary costume - Holiday costume - Gagaous or mixed race - A hard bed - The traveller’s reckoning - Bulgarian charges - Hospitality of the Turks.
CHAPTER III. ROADS AND MEANS OF COMMUNICATION.  Devious routes - Repair or go round? - Difficult locomotion - Employes classified - Mithat Pasha's road - Worse than none - A remedy suggested - Varna railroad - Postal irregularities - Telegraph clerks.
CHAPTER IV. BULGARIAN SUPERSTITIONS. Paganism and witchcraft tolerated by the Church - Feast of all Nature - Switch day - Dipping day - Bacchantes - A day of mortification for the dogs - All Souls - Feast of Constantine - Miraculous fish - Feast of serpents - Old Mother March - St. George's: why lambs are sacrificed - The Panagia - Feast of pigs - Novel sins - The Vampire - Fountain spirits - Spirit treasure-guardians - Ghosts of the Turks - Our success as exorcists - Notions of a future state.
CHAPTER V. BULGARIAN SUPERSTITIONS (Continued). - MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, &c.  Witches - Herbalist and poisoner - Prescriptions for a fever - Exorcism sought from the Turkish Hodja - Strictness of morals - Family jars - Birth and infancy - A suitor and his negotiations - The betrothal - The wedding - Dances - The last fashion - Death and burial - mourners.
CHAPTER VI. BULGARIAN SONGS. Spurious literature - Bulgarian language - Deli Marko's match with the Evil One - Philip Junak's boasting - Deli Marko's performance - Joanczo Krym Pelilivanczo - Preparations for the encounter - The Czar's bear overcome - King Marko - Arrival at Philip the Magyar's - A long swim - Combat with a Lomota - The hero's return - Seferina rejected - Legends of other races compared.
CHAPTER VII. EASTERN CHRISTIANITY, AND ITS EFFECTS IN BULGARIA.  Feasts and fast-days economically considered - The Bulgarian catechized - The clergy seek union with Rome - Rejected as unworthy - A curacy in Bulgaria - The rector - The parishioners - Fasting - Holy water - Extortion of the priests - Reforms suggested.
CHAPTER VIII. BRIGANDAGE IN THE BALKAN.  Ignorance of consuls accounted for - The Gentleman of the Forest - Generosity - The common Highwayman - Laissez aller - The Outlaw - Justice defeated - A Dogstealer.
CHAPTER IX. ORIENTAL COMMERCE. A dishonesty which defies competition - A good stroke of business - -Cent. per cent. for the merchant, but the producer suffers - Privilege of a Greek subject - Country agents - A little usury - Rising in life - Non-Greek foreign merchants - Base is the slave that pays - A swarm of locusts.
CHAPTER X. THE REAL POSITION OF THE BULGARIAN RAYAH, HIS SYSTEM OF AGRICULTURE, ETC.  Taxes on Agriculture - Neglect of Manure - Ploughing - “Why grow more?" -Reaping - Six weeks' feast - Grain carried - Threshing - Vintage - Sheep Farming - Who is the injured party?
CHAPTER XI. THE EXEMPTION OF THE RAYAH FROM MILITARY SERVICE, AND ITS EFFECTS UPON THE TURK.  Misconception prevailing in Europe - Original land-tenure - Alteration in consequence of so-called military reforms - Unequal burden imposed on the industry of the Turk by military service - Reform suggested.
CHAPTER XII. THE TAXES OF TURKEY. Taxes, personal and on property - Inequality of property-tax - Dime and its farming - Consequent loss to the revenue - Mode of collection, and injury to the cultivator - Pleas against reform - A land-tax suggested - Already exists in the case of vineyards - Customs - Corvee - Ex-traordinary contributions.

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