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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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ocandas ; and, in the way of apparel, we boughta good woollen strooka from the household where itwas made. For a trifle any girl will undertake the sixhours walk to Cattaro, and bring you back whateverits dear and ill-supplied shops aflbrd. Still, the littledaughter of the French doctor was not far wrong indescribing Cetigne as une ville oii les ressources sontrares, et Ton ne trouve quun bon air. The air is in-deed bon —even with snow on the ground it neverfelt chilly—the sunshine was bright, the atmosphereclear. To us the great grievance in Cetigne was the street.There the snow lay, and to use the expression— gotleave to lie, drift, freeze, crack or melt under the eyesof all those great fellows, who at this season have no-thing to do. For their negligence two excuses werealleged. First, that at any moment the wind mightchange, and clear the valley in a few hours. Secondlj,that the inhabitants of Cetigne do not themselves fearthe snow, and that in winter they are not accustomed
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CHAP. XXXVI.) CHRISTMAS IN MONTENEGRO. 625 to visitors. But what excuse is admissible when one ishobbhng and phinging from hole to hole where giantfootsteps have trod before 1 Every day, as we went out walking, we could see thecrowd gathered round Mirko, where, sitting at the doorof a house, he judged the people and gave ear to theirpetitions. This is his office as president of the senate.To the senate are referred cases which the judge ofeach separate village has failed to settle satisfactorily ;and from the senate a last appeal lies to the Gospodar.Therefore, while causes are pleaded before Mirko, thePrince is often present, and, as it was described to us, walks up and down, listening to what goes on, andfrequently explaining the decisions to the people. Another office was discharged by Mirko. There liadbeen drought in Montenegro—cattle died, and theharvest suffered ;—to keep the poor alive, the govern-ment had to buy Indian corn, and of this Mirko wasthe distributor. To swell h

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