55.—HERDSMEN OF THE MILITARY CONFINES.
M. George Perrot remained for rather a long period in the provinces now called the Military Confines or Frontiers, and he describes the miserable state in which the Slavonian peasantry exist there, where they are obliged to live side by side with wild hordes of Mussulman soldiers or pandours.
[Figure 55] shows peasants of these districts returning from pasture.
56.—WOMAN OF THE MILITARY CONFINES.
[Figure 56] is given by the author as a type of the Slavonian women who inhabit the Military frontiers.
Let us quote a few more of this traveller’s impressions.