. Travels and politics in the Near East. ittle town ofFoca, which lies some distance above Gorazda. We hadalso a third native on board, who earned his passage bytaking a turn at one of the rudders, and who skilfullyjumped off the raft at a place on the shore near hisdestination. We embarked just below the bridge atGorazda, and glided slowly down the stream, every nowand then racing hurriedly along as we shot the men amused themselves in the intervals of steering 198 in the Near East by throwing pieces of wood at the wild ducks which wereconstantly swimming or flying over the river,
. Travels and politics in the Near East. ittle town ofFoca, which lies some distance above Gorazda. We hadalso a third native on board, who earned his passage bytaking a turn at one of the rudders, and who skilfullyjumped off the raft at a place on the shore near hisdestination. We embarked just below the bridge atGorazda, and glided slowly down the stream, every nowand then racing hurriedly along as we shot the men amused themselves in the intervals of steering 198 in the Near East by throwing pieces of wood at the wild ducks which wereconstantly swimming or flying over the river, and as theheat became more intense, lay down on their stomachsand lapped up the water like dogs. For the greater partof the way the Drina flows between high cliffs coveredwith trees, and w^hen we reached the mouth of the greenLim, the two rivers composed together a considerablestream. We stopped at one small Mussulman villagecalled Medjedje, where we landed a barrel of wine for thegendarmes stationed there, and then went on to Visegrad,. OLD BRIDGE AT VIS^:GRAD. (From a Pliolo. hv Miss CJiadwick.) having been seven hours on the water. We landed at thefoot of a conical hill which has considerable fame in thelocal legends, on account of the tower of the Kings son Marko, the favourite hero of the Servian ballads, who issaid to have been imprisoned there for nine years, andthen to have sprung at one bound across the river. Theruins of the tower are still standing, and near the watersedge one is shown the footprint of the hero and hishorses hoof-marks. 199 Travels and Politics Visegrad is now only a small place, for it has not yetrecovered from the inundations of two years ago, whenthe Drina swept away 156 houses and rushed right overthe old bridge, one of the finest Turkish monumentsin Bosnia, built by a distinguished native of the place,Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, or * the falcons son, amember of one of the oldest Bosnian families, whoattained to high rank in the Turkish service. It w
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