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others were sent in chains to be burned at Rome. 

 Bosnia was again threatened with an orthodox 

 crusade, but the people, preferring to take their 

 chances of religious immunity with the Turk, 

 threw themselves on him for protection, and sur- 

 rendered their inexpugnable country to Muhamad 

 without striking a blow. The surrender, indeed, 

 went further than this ; for though the Serbs of 

 Bosnia have several times asserted their political 

 independence, more than a third of the popula- 

 tion have become followers of the Prophet, and 

 furnish to-day the sole example of a native Eu- 

 ropean race of Mussulmans. 



December, 1876- 



