A distinguished English archeologist and ethnographer, and a well-known authority on the Balkans, Sir Arthur J. Evans was one of the persons chosen by the London Balkan Committee as a member of the British Relief Mission charged with the task of visiting Macedonia after the Great Insurrection of 1903, to distribute aid to the victims of Turkish soldiery called out from Asia to crush the insurrection. Sir Evans is an author and well-known authority on the Balkans. Among many other works, Sir Evans is the author of the important book, The Adriatic Slavs and the Overland Route to Constantinople . The letter below, which deals with the Macedonian question, appeared in the London Times, on September 30, 1903.
All italics are editor's.
I have traversed Macedonia at different times in almost every direction - from the Aegean side, frorm Albania, from the Kossovo vilayet, from Servia, and from thc Bulgarian Principality. I have spent months there engaged in archaeological researches in tile most out of the way districts, and though my main objects were scientific and not political, I had perhaps al1 the better opportunity for forming an unbiased judgment on the condition of the country. Nor, perhaps, do tlrese impressions lose in value from the fact that they were formed before the beginning of the actual insurrectionary movement. There are no 'There are Bulgars. There are Greeks, including more or less superficially Hellenized Roumans.