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Title: Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: MacKenzie, G. Muir (Georgina Muir), d. 1874 Irby, A. P. (Adelina Paulina), 1833-1911
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Publisher: London : A. Strahan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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learnt wisdom. The slender Al-banians are no longer thought preferable to thebest rifle, nor does the most conservative warriorany longer discourage practice with weapons of new-fangled construction. Mirko has announced that hesees it will not do to quarrel with both our neigh-bours at once, nor to quarrel with Austria at all so long-as we must buy our powder and shot in Austrianports. Finally, Montenegro has learnt that shecannot stand alone in her leadership of the SlavonicChristians of Turkey : she and Danubian Serbia mustwait for each other and be careful to play into eachothers hands. The truth is, those detached sectionsof one people which diplomacy calls Montenegro andSerbia, can only have a vigorous and coherent policyin so far as they act as parts of a whole, as Serbia onthe Danube and Serbia on the Adriatic. Separate,—itnaay or may not continue to suit their neighbours tohumour them with a recognition of autonomy or inde-pendence; but it is only when united—if not yet in
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CHAP. xxxY.) SERBIA 0)N THE ADRIATIC. 583 name, at least in action—that they can have any powerto help their brethren still under Mussulman yoke. Ofcourse, knowing this, their enemies do all they can toflatter local vanity and stir up local jealousies so as tokeep them impotent and apart.* Immediately prior to the last war the Montenegrineshad become somewhat self-confident. Having openlyannounced its role as leader of the Slavonic Christiansof Turkey, the government of the Principality becameevery day more enterprising, more eager to enter onthe race set before it; and when at last some 2000Highlanders routed a regular Turkish army, the nameof the battle of Grahovo was hurled in answer to alldoubts as to Montenegros strength. By all accountsthe latest warlike suggestions came far less from anyNorthern potentate than from the party of action in Hun- * M. Ubicini, in his Les Serbes de Turquie, enters fully into thisquestion; see p. 196. In the Revue des Deux Mondes the followingremar

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