But this did not
give satisfaction. Finally, Otho, son of the King of Bavaria, was chosen,
and then elected by the people, first king of Greece.
That was in 1835. In 1863, Otho was deposed, and a new king had to be
found. The selection has proved to be a very wise one. King George was the
son of Christian IX. of Denmark, and is therefore the brother of the
Princess of Wales. During his reign of thirty-four years, Greece has
steadily improved.
But all of the Greek Christians were not freed by this heroic struggle.
There still remained several millions of their race in Macedonia and other
parts of the Ottoman Empire. These people have looked on enviously at the
prosperity and freedom of their kinsmen in Greece, and are always planning
and hoping for the time when they, too, may break the Turkish yoke.
Twenty thousand of these Greeks live on the island of _Crete_, where they
suffer unspeakably; not alone from the cruel oppression of Ottoman rule,
but from the persecutions and daily conflicts with the Mohammedans who
live with them on the island.
If you will examine a map of Europe, you will see the Greek peninsula,
looking as if it had been broken into fragments and half devoured by the
sea.
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