Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . disputesbetween Turkey and Montenegro, theMontenegrins fell upon an invadingarmy vastly superior in numbers to theirown and disarmed it. A few weeks later an Austrian officer who had visited theBlack Mountain announced that he hadseen two tho
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . disputesbetween Turkey and Montenegro, theMontenegrins fell upon an invadingarmy vastly superior in numbers to theirown and disarmed it. A few weeks later an Austrian officer who had visited theBlack Mountain announced that he hadseen two thousand two hundred andthirty-seven skeletons of Turkish soldierson the field where this disarmamentoccurred. He who wanders among the rocks ofMontenegro readily understands the char-acter of the people. The little prin-. MONTENEGKINS ON THE WATCH. cipality has without doubt a more re-markable situation than any other countryin the world. Travellers who lookeddown upon it from the summit of , its dominating peak, say thatit resembles an immense petrified far as the eye can reach in any direc-tion nothing is to be seen but vast stonywaves and wrinkles in the black surfaceof the rocks, — waves and wrinkleswhich, if one were close to them, wouldprove gigantic i)recipices, yawningchasms, valleys dee|) and sheltt>red, inwhich a few hardy iMontenegrin womenwatch tile goats and siieep cropi)ing the 690 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. short grasses among the stoues. In thisdelicious southern climate the cloudlessblue sky in summer arches tenderlyabove these frowning and terrible rocks,these colossal walls, and one is led towonder why, instead of this oppressiveand appalling desolation, he does notsee hundreds of rich vineyards withtheir purpling f rnits gleaming in the sun,or groves of ol
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