Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1912 — Peculiar Albanian Duels. [ARTICLE]

Peculiar Albanian Duels.

Alban tans used to practice a •peculiar form of dueling. Sir Richard Burton, Whoonce commanded a corps of bashl-bazonks, writes that "the Albanian contingent, who generally .fight when they ere drunk, Jtiad a peculiar style of monomachy. The principals, attended by their seconds and by their friends, stood close * opposite, each holding a cocked pistol in his light hand and a glass of rakl, or spirits of wine, in the left The first to drain His draft had the right to fire, and generally blazed apay with fatal effect It would have been useless to discourage this practice, but I Instated on fair play."-