In the land of the bora; or, Camp life and sport in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina 1894-5-6 . lace its name of Jezero. At the westernend of the valley, which, by the way, is 3450 feetabove sea-level, woods are piled on woods up tothe (then) extensive snow-fields which run alongthe bottom of the Velez precipices. (By Octoberthe snow was practically all gone.) At the north-west corner of the valley, between three noble 244 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. beeches, the tent was pitched, and thirty paces behind it I had a hut built for our servant. The tent looked down the valley, and behind the trees which
In the land of the bora; or, Camp life and sport in Dalmatia and the Herzegovina 1894-5-6 . lace its name of Jezero. At the westernend of the valley, which, by the way, is 3450 feetabove sea-level, woods are piled on woods up tothe (then) extensive snow-fields which run alongthe bottom of the Velez precipices. (By Octoberthe snow was practically all gone.) At the north-west corner of the valley, between three noble 244 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. beeches, the tent was pitched, and thirty paces behind it I had a hut built for our servant. The tent looked down the valley, and behind the trees which closed this in at its lower end rose the bare peaks of the Cervan Kange, then still streaked with snow. The first time we visited the spot Waldmann, disappearing in the wood, gave tongue, and directly afterwards a doe broke within twenty yards of me. He had not seen one for two good years, and he was not fated to see another; for, being accidentally locked out one night at Lakat, the poor old fellow was so terribly mauled by a wolf that he died next day. So we went but sadly into IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 245 CHAPTER XXVI. We had now to learn what a vast difference,from a camping point of view, there is betweenDalmatia and the Herzegovina—or I should rathersay the Velez, for after we left this range thingswent much more pleasantly. It is true thatthere is one point of resemblance, and that isthe difficulty of getting a camp site with goodwater—that is to say, away from the Narentaand its tributaries. Wood, such a difficulty inDalmatia, is none here. The sport of the Herze-govina is, of course, far superior to that ofDalmatia. It is, however, in the intercourse with thenatives in which the principal difference lies. Amore idle, disobliging lot than those at Lakat itwould be hard to find. They have a very goodidea of fleecing the foreigner, and if he will notbe fleeced he will not be served. For instance,I knew that the tariff for a messenger to Nevesmjewas half a flor
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