. Travels and politics in the Near East. by a loquacious Jewess from Galicia,who talked incessantly about her six children and deploredthat there was no school for them there. Thence toRogatica the road was all downhill, and the situation ofthe latter place amply repaid us for the trouble of reach-ing it. It is, indeed, one of the prettiest places in thecountry, for it lies, as one might expect of an almost en-tirely Mussulman town, in a leafy valley watered byabundant streams. Out of its population of 3,300, only 201 Travels and Politics 300 are Christians, and it is thus one of the most con-
. Travels and politics in the Near East. by a loquacious Jewess from Galicia,who talked incessantly about her six children and deploredthat there was no school for them there. Thence toRogatica the road was all downhill, and the situation ofthe latter place amply repaid us for the trouble of reach-ing it. It is, indeed, one of the prettiest places in thecountry, for it lies, as one might expect of an almost en-tirely Mussulman town, in a leafy valley watered byabundant streams. Out of its population of 3,300, only 201 Travels and Politics 300 are Christians, and it is thus one of the most con-servative towns in Bosnia. Thus the Mussuhnans havestrenuously refused here to allow their daughters to go toschool with the Orthodox girls, and have opposed theerection of a new girls school on that ground. Intimes of fasting, too, the Mussulman mayor goes roundto the cafes to see that none of the faithful are smoking,or even inhaling the smoke of the infidels cigarettes ; anyoffender is severely punished. Yet in spite of this severity. CHILDREN AT VISEGRAD. {From a PJwto. by Miss Chndivich.) on the part of the Mussulman majority, the small Chris-tian minority, which is entirely composed of Serbs, livespeaceably with the other section of the , too, the Mussulmans are noted for their learning,and many of them are begs. In fact, Rogatica boasts ofhaving produced a former SJicik-ul-Isldiii, or head of theMohammedan hierarchy at Constantinople, who founded amosque here called after his name. A more interestingmosque, however, is that of the Mufti, in the courtyardof which is a fine Roman tomb—for a Roman road used,at one time, to pass through this place, and Roman 202 in the Near East remains have been found in large quantities here. TheMussulmans, with their usual disregard for classical an-tiquities, calmly added two steps of masonry to thisancient piece of stonework, so that in bad weather, whenit is too wet to go up to the minaret, the muezzin canmount on to it
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