The Slavs of the war zone . A Farmstead in A river source in the Karst Mountains. [To face page 146. CHAPTER X ACEOSS THE MOUNTAINS OF THE KAEST : THE LAND OF THE PANDOFRS Up—up—up—rises the state railway from Fiume, over theLiburnian Carso to Zagreb. Up—up—from the city, its blindingglare, its heat, its noise, its humming life. With every mileclimbed the view increases in splendour. Wider and widerstretches the Gulf. More and yet more islands creep into sight,scintillating like minute jewels on an azure silken robe. Ahundred hitherto unseen rocks lift themselves from out the reefof t
The Slavs of the war zone . A Farmstead in A river source in the Karst Mountains. [To face page 146. CHAPTER X ACEOSS THE MOUNTAINS OF THE KAEST : THE LAND OF THE PANDOFRS Up—up—up—rises the state railway from Fiume, over theLiburnian Carso to Zagreb. Up—up—from the city, its blindingglare, its heat, its noise, its humming life. With every mileclimbed the view increases in splendour. Wider and widerstretches the Gulf. More and yet more islands creep into sight,scintillating like minute jewels on an azure silken robe. Ahundred hitherto unseen rocks lift themselves from out the reefof the Archipelago. The very sky seems to expand. Firstthe lovely valley of the Draga is traversed. Sheltered, vividlygreen, luxuriant, full of laughing streamlets, wooded ravines, deepand cool, rich orchards and meadows knee-deep with fragrantwild flowers. Scattered here and there are pink-walled creeper-en wreathed homesteads, built around large courtyards, andblossoming gardens. The yards are stacked with ox-waggons,with firewood piled ag
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