Sandanski escaped, to plan the killing of Boris Sarafoff and Ivan Garvanoff, two of the members of the Committee of Three, who were inimical to his plans. He didnot kill them himself, but it is indisputable that the man who did kill them, Nicola Panitza, was his lieutenant. I knew Panitza in Sofia, and never expected him to fall so low. With his chief, he escaped to Macedonia, and is living, to-day [1908], I believe, in the raon of Drama, of which he was voivode. (p. 354)

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They are a race by themselves - these Macedonia chetniks. All young, hardy, and intelligent, they are the pick of the Bulgar stock. Since the days of the Crusades, of Coeur de Lion and Scanderbeg, no more romantic type has evolved itself in the tangled meshes of the world's history.

They were kinder to me than any set of men I have ever known... And what magnificient fighters they are ! It is a sight such as makes life worth living, to see one of them holding off three askares from a wounded comrade. The Turks fear them with a fear that is often comic... As for the chetniks - they think nothing of attacking twice their number.

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It should be remembered, to begin with, that there is no Macedonian race, as a distinct type. Macedonians may belong to any of the races of Eastern Europe or Western Asia, as, indeed, they do. A Macedonian Bulgar is just the same as a Bulgar of Bulgaria proper, the old principality, that in October, 1908, at Tirnova, was proclaimed independent of Turkey. He looks the same, talks the same, and very largely, thinks the same way. In short, he is of the same stock. There is no difference, whatsoever, between the two branches of the race, except that the Macedonian Bulgars, as a result of their position under the Turkish government, have less culture and education than their northern brethren. (pp. 4-5)