The acquaintance thus formed between the two missions was ever after a source of mutual pleasure and profit.
Mr.Bliss thus concludes a report of his visit:-- "This, my first acquaintance with the Bulgarians, has given me a very favorable opinion of them.

Others have expressed a different opinion, but I should rank them before the Armenians in native intelligence and cultivation.

Certainly a higher degree of civilization prevails among them, than among the Armenians of Asia Minor.

They have better homes, better vehicles, better implements of husbandry.

Wherever we went, we found much to remind us that we were in Europe, and not in Asia.