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The American historian Richard Milliman states that [[Eugene Schuyler]] visited personally only 11 of the villages he reported on. Schuyler, however certainly visited some Batak and many other of the destroyed towns and villages, including [[Perushtitsa]]<ref>Selected essays; Eugene Schuyler, Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer; 1901; [http://books.google.bg/books?id=p5UHAQAAIAAJ&q=perushtitsa#search_anchor pp.71,74]</ref> and [[Panagyurishte]].<ref>Bulgaria today: the land and the people, a voyage of discovery; "William Cary"; 1965; p.45</ref> Millman also claims that the accepted reality of the massacres is largely a myth.<ref>Millman, Richard. “The Bulgarian Massacres Reconsidered.” pp. 218,227-228</ref> Contemporary Bulgarian historians generally accept the number of Bulgarian casualties at the end of the uprising to be around 30 000.
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{{Rquote|left|ButMa letlasciate meche tellvi youracconti whatquello weche sawabbiamo atvisto a Batak ... TheIl numbernumero ofdi childrenbambini killeduccisi in thesequesti massacresmassacri isè somethingqualcosa enormousdi enorme. TheySpesso werevenivano ofteninfilzati spittedcon onle bayonetsbaionette, anded weabbiamo havediverse severalstorie storiesdi fromtestimoni eye-witnessesoculari whoche sawvidero thequesti littlebambini babespiccoli carriedche aboutvenivano theportati streetsper le strade, bothsia herequi andche ata Olluk-Kni, onsulle thepunte pointsdelle of bayonetsbaionette. TheLa reasonragione isè simplesemplice. WhenQuando aun Mohammedanmaomettano hasha killeducciso aun certaincerto numbernumero ofdi infidelsinfedeli hesi isè sureassicurato ofil ParadiseParadiso, nonon matterimporta whatquali hispeccati sinsabbia maycompiuto bein precedenza... It was a heap of skulls, intermingled with bones from all parts of the human body, skeletons nearly entire and rotting, clothing, human hair and putrid flesh lying there in one foul heap, around which the grass was growing luxuriantly. It emitted a sickening odor, like that of a dead horse, and it was here that the dogs had been seeking a hasty repast when our untimely approach interrupted them ... The ground is covered here with skeletons, to which are clinging articles of clothing and bits of putrid flesh. The air was heavy, with a faint, sickening odor, that grows stronger as we advance. It is beginning to be horrible. |Eyewtiness account of J. A. MacGahan on Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria|in a letter to the ''[[London Daily News]]'' of August 22, 1876<ref>[http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/related/macgahan.php J. A. MacGahan on Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria]</ref>}}
News of massacres of Bulgarians reached Istanbul in May and June 1876 through Bulgarian students at [[Robert College]], the American college in the city. Faculty members at Robert College wrote to the British Ambassador and to the Istanbul correspondents of ''[[The Times]]'' and the ''[[London Daily News#1846-1930|London Daily News]]''.
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