Copyright, 1923
By Rose Wilder Lane
Printed in the U.S.A.
D-X
To My Mother
Laura Ingalls Wilder
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| [Introduction] | ||
| [I.] | Shadows on Scutari plain—The voice in the Chafa Bishkasit—The lands of the hidden tribes—A woman of Shala | [1] |
| [II.] | Trails of the mountaineers—The man of Ipek kills his donkey—The house of the Bishop of Pultit—Marriage by the Law of Lec—The blood feud between Shala and Shoshi | [15] |
| [III.] | The story of Pigeon and Little Eagle—The prehistoric city of Pog, and the tale of the golden image—The gendarmes sing of politics | [33] |
| [IV.] | Welcome to the house of Marke Gjonni—We hear the voice of an oread—A guardian spirit of the trails | [54] |
| [V.] | The unearthly marriage of the man of Ipek—First night in a native Albanian house | [65] |
| [VI.] | The song of the flight of Marke Gjloshi—The hunted man of Shoshi—The way through the Wood of the Ora—A woman who believes in private property | [87] |
| [VII.] | Can a man own a house?—We sing for our hosts of Pultit—Dawn and a meeting on the trail—The village of Thethis welcomes guests—Life or death for Perolli | [111] |
| [VIII.] | In the house of Padre Marjan—Lulash gives a word of honor and discusses marriage—The stolen daughter of Shala | [131] |
| [IX.] | The chiefs of Thethis probate a will—We visit the house of Lulash—A journey to upper Thethis | [156] |
| [X.] | The water ora of Mali Sharit—The coming of the tribes to Europe before the seas were born, and how the first Greeks came in boats—Why Alexander the Great was born in Emadhija, and of his journey to Macedonia—The sad house of Koi Marku | [171] |
| [XI.] | Mass in the church of Thethis—A mountain chief seeks a wife—Down the valley of the Lumi Shala, while the drangojt fight the dragon—How Rexh came to Scutari | [203] |
| [XII.] | The song of the last great war with the dragon—An unexpected bandit—How Ahmet, chief of the Mati, went by night to Valona—The raising of Scanderbeg’s flag—An Albanian love song | [220] |
| [XIII.] | The backward trail—The man of Shala has a sense of humor—The byraktor of Shoshi hears that the earth is round | [243] |
| [XIV.] | A night by the byraktor’s fire—The byraktor calls a council—Rexh to the rescue—The byraktor’s gendarme tears a poncho—Moonlight on the Scutari plain | [259] |
| [Postscript.] In which is related what may be found behind the curtain of silence which hides Albania, also how the men of Dibra came with their rifles to Tirana, and how Ahmet, the Hawk, chief of the Mati and present Prime Minister of Albania, saved the Balkan equilibrium | [285] | |