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| His Majesty King Peter of Servia | Frontispiece |
| Map of the Author’s Route through the Near East | 16 |
| Pero, my Montenegrin Driver | 20 |
| Albanians in Cettinje | 20 |
| The Royal Palace, Cettinje | 24 |
| Principal Street in Cettinje | 24 |
| His Royal Highness Prince Nicholas of Montenegro | 28 |
| The Petroleum Tins of Cettinje | 32 |
| The Monastery, Cettinje | 32 |
| Mr. Chas. Des Graz, Chargé d’Affaires at Cettinje | 34 |
| The Piazza, Ragusa | 34 |
| Ryeka, Montenegro | 42 |
| Zabliak, Montenegro | 42 |
| Palok, my Companion through the Skreli Country | 44 |
| In Skodra (two views) | 48 |
| My Friend Salko outside his House in Skodra | 54 |
| Pietro’s Sister-in-Law unveiled before the Camera | 54 |
| Rok, Tribesman of the Skreli | 58 |
| Pietro Lekha | 58 |
| The Madonna of Skodra | 64 |
| The Procession with an Armed Guard | 64 |
| The Mirediti: an Alarm! | 66 |
| The Mirediti at Prayer | 66 |
| My Road in Northern Albania | 70 |
| The Way to the Skreli | 70 |
| Vatt Marashi, Chief of the Skreli Tribe | 74 |
| The Skreli at Home | 76 |
| An Albanian Village | 76 |
| Among the Skreli: Lûk and his Friends | 80 |
| Mrika, the Woman who carried on the Blood-Feud | 84 |
| My Bodyguard in Northern Albania | 90 |
| Bunaquelle, Bosnia | 96 |
| Jajace, Bosnia | 96 |
| Sarayevo, Bosnia | 112 |
| In Herzegovina | 112 |
| His Excellency Nicholas Pachitch, Prime Minister of Servia | 120 |
| His Excellency Dr. Milenko Vesnitch, Servian Minister of Justice | 124 |
| His Excellency Costa Stoyanovitch, Servian Minister of Commerce | 126 |
| The Royal Palace, Belgrade: the Ballroom | 130 |
| Royal Palace, Belgrade (exterior) | 132 |
| Principal Boulevard of Belgrade | 132 |
| His Royal Highness Prince George of Servia | 134 |
| Mr. Beethom Whitehead, British Minister at Belgrade | 138 |
| Mr. Alex. Tucker, Servian Consul-General in London | 138 |
| The Road to the East: The Last View of Europe | 144 |
| Villagers and Gipsies in Miriavo (Servia) | 144 |
| The British Legation, Belgrade | 148 |
| The Knes Mihajelowa, Belgrade | 148 |
| In the “Kalemegdan,” Belgrade | 160 |
| The Market-Place, Belgrade | 160 |
| His Royal Highness Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria | 180 |
| Peasants in Sofia Market-Place | 182 |
| The Old Mosque, Sofia | 182 |
| His Excellency Dr. Dimitri Stancioff, Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs | 184 |
| The Late Monsieur D. Petkoff, Prime Minister of Bulgaria | 188 |
| The Royal Palace, Sofia | 190 |
| The Main Boulevard, Sofia | 190 |
| His Excellency N. Ghenadieff, Bulgarian Minister of Commerce | 192 |
| Early Morning in Sofia | 194 |
| On the Road to the Shipka | 194 |
| The Bulgarian Sobranje | 196 |
| Gen. Michael Savoff, Bulgarian Minister of War | 198 |
| His Excellency L. Payacoff, Bulgarian Minister of Finance | 200 |
| Sir George Buchanan, British Minister at Sofia | 200 |
| Military Manœuvres in Bulgaria (two views) | 204 |
| Peasants at Vladaja, Bulgaria | 208 |
| Bulgarian Military Types | 208 |
| Peasants near Tirnovo, Bulgaria | 210 |
| Tziganes on the Isker Road | 214 |
| Where I spent a Comfortless Night in Bulgaria | 216 |
| Bulgarian Laundresses | 216 |
| The Rose-Fields near Kazanlik | 220 |
| Gathering Roses at Kazanlik | 224 |
| Testing Otto-of-Rose at Kazanlik | 224 |
| Bulgarian Peasants dancing the “Horo” | 226 |
| Summit of the Shipka Pass | 228 |
| Defile of the Isker | 228 |
| His Majesty King Charles of Roumania | 234 |
| Snap-Shots in Bucharest (two views) | 236 |
| The Royal Palace, Bucharest | 240 |
| Boulevard Elisabeta, Bucharest | 240 |
| His Excellency George Cantacuzen, Roumanian Prime Minister | 244 |
| His Excellency Take Jonesco, Roumanian Minister of Finance | 244 |
| His Excellency Geo. G. Manu, Roumanian Minister of War | 246 |
| Sir Conyngham Greene, British Minister at Bucharest | 246 |
| Gen. Jacques Lahovary, Roumanian Minister of Foreign Affairs | 248 |
| Her Majesty the Queen of Roumania | 252 |
| The Queen of Roumania’s Blind Institute at Bucharest | 256 |
| Blind Inmates at Work | 260 |
| His Excellency Tewfik Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Imperial Ottoman Empire | 264 |
| His Excellency Noury Pasha | 274 |
| The Entrance to the Bosphorus | 280 |
| In Constantinople | 280 |
| Lake of Ochrida, Macedonia | 285 |
| Lake of Presba, Macedonia | 285 |
| Macedonian Woman abducted by Turks from Klene, near Debr, and rescued by a Bulgarian Band | 288 |
| General Tzontcheff, the Bulgarian Leader in Macedonia | 288 |
| A Bulgarian Band in Macedonia | 292 |
| General Tzontcheff in Macedonia | 304 |
| The Turkish Burial-Ground at Scutari, Asia Minor | 304 |
THE NEAR EAST
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