The Treasure of the Saxon and the Turk

In the region through which you came last night. There can be but little doubt, for it was the ground fought over for centuries by the Saxon and the Turk. Why there is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men. Patriots or invaders? In old days there was stirring times when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in the hordes, and the Patriots went out to meet them. Men waited, they're coming on the rocks above the passes that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches. When the invader was triumphant he found only little. But how, said I, can it have remained so long undiscovered