Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . d stable. As a rule, there are nowindows, only a doorway, and the houses are built of roughlyhewn stones held together with a mortar made of mud. There are about a hundred of these residences in theMontenegrin capital, the population of which does not ex- (215) 2l6 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. ceed 1,000 inhabitants. The length of the capital is about 3,000yards and its width about 100. There are no monuments, withthe exception of a little tower perched on the hillside wherefo
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . d stable. As a rule, there are nowindows, only a doorway, and the houses are built of roughlyhewn stones held together with a mortar made of mud. There are about a hundred of these residences in theMontenegrin capital, the population of which does not ex- (215) 2l6 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. ceed 1,000 inhabitants. The length of the capital is about 3,000yards and its width about 100. There are no monuments, withthe exception of a little tower perched on the hillside whereformerly the heads of the Turks killed in battle were ex-posed. The monas-tery, which is onanother hillside,forms the residenceof the Bishop ofMontenegro, andthe Bigliardo, asthe ruins of theformer Palace ofthe Princess arestill called, is nowused as a printingoffice, from whichare issued, as youmay well imagine,some very peculiarletters, circulars,and other kinds ofcommercial print-ing, entirely differ-ent in appearanceand Qfeneral make-up from English orThe reason for the peculiar name ofto the immense sensation—which. PRINCE OF MONTENEGRO. American specimens. Big-liardo is owir indeed has not yet subsided—created by the arrival at thecapital of a full-sized billiard-table, which was imported by THE ROYAL FAMILY OF MONTENfeGRO. Hl^J the predecessor of the reigning- Prince and conveyance ofwhich from the seaport to the old palace at Cettignenecessitated the services of over sixty men. The only building, in fact, of the whole place, which lookshalfways civilized, is the Palace, which resembles one of thosevillas of retired shopkeepers that abound in the suburbs ofParis. It is surrounded on every side by a high wall. The en-trance hall, decorated with trophies and panoplies of arms, iscold and uninviting, and a straight and steep staircase leadsup to the great salon, which is sumptuously furnished. Thewalls are hidden by Gobelins and fine pieces of Oriental tap-estry. On the r
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