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Image from page 144 of "The edge of the Orient" (1896)
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Identifier: edgeoforient00russ
Title: The edge of the Orient
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Robert Howard
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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|)i()fd himsill a bet-ter sw(jrdsmaii than the j)i-iesl,and killcil him andsevered his head from his body; l)ut his triumphWas short lived, as immcdiatrh upon ihc rcsum|>-tion of hostilities he was served in the same wavbv an infuriated MdiiIc lu-griu in revenge h)r lliedeath of Iopc Miln. .f the fall «>l Niksic ihc Iriiuc. wlio had bcniin active coiiimaud <it the hmg siege, duringwhi( h the .Montenegrin women had toiled inces-santlv carrving cannon-balls and rations over themountains to the besiegers, received the surren-der ol .Scanderbeg reclining on his struka on arock, and after he had taken coffee with the an(pnshed Turkish commander he (i.m|M)sed apoem containing the news ol his victoiv, t oiu-mencing, Niksic mourns, caittive fo-da ol myarms, which he sent to his wife at Cettinje. where «aS The Edge of the Orient the Princess rc;i(l it to the citizens amid salvosof api)laiise from their guns and pistols, and therina^ini; of the monastery bells ; while the metro-
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Wlor.tenegnns. politan or archbishop of Montenegro formed aring for the war-dance or Horo, and the blindminstrels tuned their one - stringed guzlas and Cattaro and Montenegro sang the song of the Green Apple Tree, wliichrecites the valorons deeds of Montenegrin lie-roes. Since 1878 there has been no active warfare inMontenegro, and the mountain warriors have liadto content themselves with occasional raids intothe neighboring provinces, and even this haslately been done away with, owing to the watch-fid eye of the .Viistrians on the ntjrth and thepacific policy of the Turks on the south. Thisenforced peace cannot last long, hoAvever. for llieMontenegrin can never fc^rget that it was theTurk who, five hundred years ago, diove himfrom his fertile fields and luxuriant valle^■s aboutthe old Serbian caj)ital ol Irisrend, and >liul h-iinup in the bairen, inaccessible prison among therocks, where he now lives, and, not confenf to lethim rest in peace even theie while still iiiuoii-(juere
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