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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 481

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. The tower of skulls glistened in thebright sunshine, as we halted at the grim trophya few miles from the town. This ghastly edificewas built after a Servian rebellion about sev-enty years before. The Serbe prisoners capturedby the Turks were marched to this spot. Men,women, and little children… … W E ARRI\ E Al LOM PALANKA been trampled into the earth or carried awayby jackals or wolves. A few still remained totell the terrible story, and to bear witness to thebarbarity of the Moslem. We traveled all day,toiling over the rough roads of the Balkans to Lom Palanka, where we arrived as the sim…

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