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352 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Foreign Literature. Jpoets Madame And Po...
and son cloaks some Dalmatic but the and Dalmatians Oriental who merchants were from , the latter the Bocca wrapped di in Cattaro long crim were
clad in black , from head to foot , and from this circumstanceas well as from their serious and even stern demeanor , , I took them for members , of some
monastic order till I saw that they were , folly armed . " " The first striking traces of the existence of the warlike race of Montenegro of the traveller the Ill
meet in the the form eyes of numerous ruins on of villas yrian , formerl coast , y near inhabite the city d by of K opulent _-agusa , citizens of that town , and plundered and burnt by the mountaineers in
the 1806 French , at the insti but gation we found of the similar Russians evidences when of they destruction helped them on the to drive shores out of the Bocca di ; Cattaroas we approached the town of that name . Monte-,
and negro then , indeed may , be seems expected to be to regarded send forth as an a kind eruption of volcano though , more that every frequentl now y As in the our direction steamer of entered the Turkish the bay frontier however , towards this terrible Herzegovina , volcano and with Scutari its .
loffcy summits piercing the sky , lay , smiling , and lovely before us in , the sunshine , looking as quiet and innocent as possible . I was eager to get a sight market of some day of these in Cattaro warlike , mountaineers I had soon an , and opportunity , as it happened . With to a be telescope bazaar , or I
could distinguish small groups of them coming down the long zig-zag paths , which the Austrians have made from the town to the edge of their upper mountain Montegrin ramparts men and , and women at length irls and the lads whole horses road appeare and asses d covere laden d with with
various products of their country , g , and hastening , down to the town , . " The town of Cattaro may be said to be in some measure dependent on nothing Montenegro but wine for most and of oil the and necessaries above the of vineyards life , for the and Bocca olive itself lantations produces the
coast mountains on the Austri , an side are mere naked sunburnt p rocks . , In the cattle interior and rivers of these in fish mountains and the , however supernuity , are of found these woods articles abounding as well as in
wood , , skins , wool , dried meat , , and potatoes , wax , and honey , , are brought disturbance down to Cattaro and . that When fihting , as is so going often on happens on the , borders Montenegro Cattaro is in finds a state itself of
, g , to as if export in a , state and of very siege little , cut to off eat from , so the that world the , with good no citiz occupation ens doubtless , no goods feel sincere satisfaction in the restoration of peace among their warlike
very neighbours "As I hav . e said we came into Cattaro on a bazaar day , landing at the
town Porta , and della found Marina the , little which place leads in from a state the of harbour unusual to bustle the , interior as a large of bod the y of military was concentrated on the Boccaand the narrow streets and
public places were filled with a Jcrowd that , was perceptibly increased by townspeop our two hundred lesailors steam and -boat merchants passengers from . various Italian parts soldiers of the , ( _German Bocca officers and in ,
in very his varied white , costume woollen , s , and tunic here and and , brown there a tasselled Montenegrin cloak child denominated of the , Mist a , Strukka . ,
outside " The the mountaineers town , and are that usuall on appointed y admitted days onl . y to If the they bazaar wish , an to enter enclosure the mi city ght they permit are a required lion to call to upon lay down you , on their condition arms at of the his depositing gate , much his as teeth you
Fiumera and claws _, and in the the hall _Porta . At di each Oord of izzi o , small Land- stone gates houses of Cattaro are , erected the Porta for the di ment express is g pur iven _| _Dose , on of the receiving delivery these of whi dep ch osits , the of weapons weapons , and are handed an acknowledg back to
gulation their owner , and . hardl The mountaineers y like better to however part with have th a eir great daggers objection and pistols to this ; than re-
352 Notices Of Books.
352 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/64/
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