Show L d baff V k M 00 u n 11 F P 4 k P 2 t cow 4 4 ail 1 W 4 U 4 f I 1 A J MT men of montenegro I 1 prepared by the national geographic society washington D C 0 t little montenegro which was waa the i tiniest kingdom in europe hns has been the world war into the big new kingdom of jugo slavia its well loved king te is dead its capital only the seat of a province but half a millennium of dearly bought independence pen Den dence and the most intense patriot j ism inn ha has made its inhabitants not alto tether ether willing to lose their identity identify eo from time to time lime commissions appear to present Monte negros case to the world and to ke keep p alive its marvelous history and traditions this little country then smaller than I 1 delaware laware and some sometimes ilmis with na no more than fighting roen within its borders has the distinction of being the one patch efland of land inace in the broad expanse of the balkan peninsula that kept itself free from turkish conquest during the five oril a halt half centuries since the turks cruised the one after another the regions that are now bulgaria greece serbia and albania fell before the excellent turkish fighting organizations and settled down for hundreds of years sears under a condition little better than slavery to mo moslem stem masters montenegro remained free and was practically a christian island in a sea of mohammedanism only on its western border was ins it in contact during this long period with other christian territory h a narrow strip of adriatic coast controlled by venice II 11 upon the final overthrow of the ancient glory of the serbs gerbs on the field of kossodo Kos Nos a few valiant souls retreated to the rocky fastnesses fast nesses of Ce magora to seek asylum with the of the zeta A few years later abandoned by their ruler who preferred a life of ease tit nt venice they turned to their f bishop made him also their prince and with ailin retreated still deeper In into the lillig and there set up lint alint long litie line of the Vla bladikas dikas which did not end until well into the last 1 a 0 st century tributes to their bravery there they maintained their freedom with suffering indescribable and i with courage illimitable and won from fram gladstone the great grat englith english epostle of balkan freedom those i V of undying praise in which lie he gave gae it as ills his dellbe deliberate ritte opinion that the traditions of montenegro exceed in glory those of marathon and thermopylae and nil all the var iyar traill atoni of the world and inspired in what lie he regarded as the finest of his sonnets inscribed to tile the smallest among peoples people st rough t r rock ock throne ol 01 K i freedom warriors warr lora beating back th the 11 swarm of turkish islam for five hundred years areat gortat Cerna goral never since thine own black ridges drew the cloud and broke ithe the storm j has breathed a roce race of mightier mountaineers tai tal 11 L lut lit a stones throw of the 1 adriatic sea montenegro was song long cut off from it until in n the middle of nineteenth century her onni arms won an from the turks cattaro has always been the logical port of the coun i try and its natural gateway from the west yet it remained until the world war in the hands handa of austria nw now iCat XIt toro taro ls bi jugo slavic andis and Is no longer under a control alien to that of monte ibro in the da before the world war the few diplomats s and travelers who visited vie the capital of montenegro con considers the ride over ati the e au road fro from m cattaro one of u the grat idest scenically to be found in europe ascending the marvelous which shirb leads up from the port one approaches pro aches the stem and gloomy defile wilh forms tile portal 0 to o this historic strong stronghold hoid of freedom in me tl e D olkang engineering 19 tills this road for post alvid military it 1 tlapa to lo tile the faro ft f tile the sliver locc and denves N hack back anti ami forth in a multitude of i curves which ibe the oi it the lie post 1 treat that tant couten pt which ii 11 4 it nu it din arvill fr ir vill 1 p aind oer ever tip nr oro ono pops lie below lily st at i 11 1 antii mv hn riffa hah J jit it byell tutu cai i K ni pont fioril re anfin 1 ng b ber iii dmd mi ici lined in with lili tile hi passive I 1 tits of biose alue buia i uia ut of in an earlier day who stretched out the lion on of st marks front from the lido to the iles ettaro battaro nt taro which was italian in appearance austrian in al le leblance glance eg lance but aut serban feeling its heart ever ver in the highlands beyond smiles tile he adriatic and bove above tower the gaunt aunt gra gray y rocks against which the road seems a veritable ladder laid upon a wall A wilderness of rocks threading at last a narrow defile nh whose ase walls are pierced with caves where lurk the fables of the mountaineers tai tol and crossing a pass too often swathed in clouds one turns urns adorner a orner and comes face to face with the an dent clent realm of the Vi allikas the smile of the soft blue sea lies iles bei behind ind and before stretches a wild turbulent ocean of boci rock rising and sinking in angry gray waves flecked with white seem to leap and rage and battle together like a sea lashed by a storm stones rocks and crass crags nothing else not a tree not a blade of gross grass scarcely even a tuft of brushwood to relieve the dreary scene of desolation at the creation so runs the montenegrin legend an angel was sent forth to pick up the superfluous stones on the earths eart lis surface ile he placed them in a bag which burst as he was flying over Cerna gorn and certainly tile the landscape bears bear s out the tale and yet the scene cannot lip bp said to lack charm the charm of majesty always to lie he found among the hills and while at first sight gaunt gray and drear nn an arid wilderness of bare rock tells in one blow of the sufferings of centuries pity does not long endure en clure it passes almost ct at once to praise for it a people who have hav 0 preferred liberty in tills this desolation to slavery in fat lands from the alie old austrian border to one encounters but one village Nl egush nestling in n a little cleft in ij the hills and claiming attention as the cradle of the dynasty which for more than two centuries ruled the destinies of the land here was born not only danello 1 I progenitor of the line jut most of his successors including the told late king whose tiny villa lie Is the lie showplace show place of the town I 1 from the pocket of be e pins the ascent anti and nn an hours flours climbing bl brings him to tile he top of the pass ig in nn sight of Cetin je the distance as the crow flies files Is short but the winding rond road multiplies the miles and one has ample opportunity to survey the tiny iny former capital which boasts albeit somewhat inaccurately Inaccurate fy that its streets eh flono mo of all the balkan capitals have never echoed to the tread of a conquering turkish host the capital two broad parallel streets connect ed by irregularly laid out cross streets comprise the town which lies iles hemmed in on every side by the stem hills the green fields the elms tile the buttercups butter cups by the roadside and tile the steep gables of the houses which often lie banked to their eaves with winters snows are reminiscent of a white mountain jil village european dross dress has made slight inroads in this part of the world though the lie army thanks to russian generos ity fly wore khaki the palace guard wore montenegrin garb to the end and it was tile the habitual dress drees of both king and queen the latter having pointedly refused tile the suggest suggestion lon of her dough daugh in law that together with the title she should take on modern gowns montenegrins Montene grins are nearly all nl giants and the they stride as though hough each wore wora seven league boots indeed when a I 1 montenegrin wants to go anywhere in a hurry he walks not using the splendid t reads with his mountains mountain are threaded but taking tile the old short cuts among the hills these are a race of warriors and before tim world sut sV about in ili the coffee houses bemoaning their lot what a life for or a man inan I 1 they sald thirty years without a wart warf nothing for it n man to do but there was always plenty for the women to do tind the women of montenegro so and grace graceful fil in their yeath bolth soon sonn lafe te th flidr r good looks 6 orl hecea bent end and bowed and ugly I 1 |