Through the lands of the Serb,

,3i 2 THROUGH THE LANDS OF THE SERB hastily, "This is a Herzegovinian family, signorin'. Do you like the Herzegovinese?" Rather taken aback, and not knowing what his politics were, I replied, stupidly enough, "I find their costume very interesting." This frivolous remark hurt the steward deeply. "Signorin'," he said very gravely, "these' are some of the bravest men in the world. Each'. one of these that you see would fight till he died." Then in a mysterious undertone, "They cannot live without freedom... they are leaving their own land... it has been taken, as you know, by the Austrian... They are going to Montenegro, to a free country. They have taken with them all their possessions, and they go to find freedom." I looked at them with a curious sense of pity. Though they knew it not, they were the survivors of an old, old world, the old world which still lingers in out-of-the-way corners, and it was from the twentieth century quite as much as from the Teuton they wereendeavouring to flee. All these parti-coloured saddle-. bags and little bundles tied up in cotton handkerchiefs represented the worldly goods of three generations, who had left the land of their forebears and were upon a quest as mystical as any conceived by f medixeval knight-they were seeking the shrine of Liberty. "Of old sat Freedom on the heights "; let: us hope they found her there! I never saw them again. On the other hand, in a boat with Austrian sym — pathies, the tale is very different. "I am a Viennese, Friulein. Imagine what it is to me to have to travel in this dreary place! The people?-they are a rough, discontented set. Very ignorant. Very bad. No i 4 I

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Title: Through the lands of the Serb,
Author: Durham, Mary E.
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Publication: London,: E. Arnold,; 1904.
Subject terms: Montenegro -- Description and travel; Serbia -- Description and travel.

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