. Travels and politics in the Near East. have played an important part in the historyof the country, that we saw one Sunday a peasant on her knees round the church, followed by aboy, either in fulfilment of some vow or as a penance forsome misdeed that they had committed. We saw, too, agirl kneeling durmg the whole service outside the door,and learnt that this was a common punishment foroffences against morality. Within the church scores of 159 Travels and Politics men were kneeling, with their quaint pigtails hangingdown from their close-shaven heads, as is the fashion inmany p
. Travels and politics in the Near East. have played an important part in the historyof the country, that we saw one Sunday a peasant on her knees round the church, followed by aboy, either in fulfilment of some vow or as a penance forsome misdeed that they had committed. We saw, too, agirl kneeling durmg the whole service outside the door,and learnt that this was a common punishment foroffences against morality. Within the church scores of 159 Travels and Politics men were kneeling, with their quaint pigtails hangingdown from their close-shaven heads, as is the fashion inmany parts of this country. And, grim relic of the past,beneath a glass case at the side of the building reposedthe skeleton of the last Bosnian King, Stephen Tomasevic,the skull severed from the neck, just as it was cut off bythe treacherous Sultans orders over four centuries King had relied upon the pardon offered to him, andhad given himself up to Mohammed lieutenant, whobrought him as his prisoner to the Sultan at Jajce—the. PEXAXCE AT JAJCE.[From a Pholo. by Miss Chadivtck.) same place whence, a little earlier, he had hurled defianceat his conqueror. But the captive King was an encum-brance to the victor. A legal excuse was speedilyinvented for an act of treachery which justice brands asinexcusable. A learned Persian pronounced the pardonto be invalid because it had been granted without theprevious consent of the Sultan. Mohammed thereuponsummoned Tomasevic to his presence on the spot stillcalled the ** Emperors meadow. The captive came, and in the Near East as he approached within reach the hthe Persian drew hissword and, with a spring in the air, cut off the head ofthe last Bosnian King. According to another accountTomasevic was first flayed ahve. By the Sultans com-mand the fetva, in which the Persian had composed thecaptive monarchs sentence, was carved on the gate ofJajce, where as late as the middle of the present centurycould be read the words : The tr
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