58 ON THE ROAD 



well be conceded at once that nine-tenths of 

 the traffic, even on these new roads, is not 

 wheeled. 



Let us begin with the capital. Although 

 every attempt is being made to improve the 

 streets, it must be said that at present all 

 traffic has to pass by one route — as a matter 

 of fact the Metko vie- Sarajevo road. For 

 part of the way it is doubled by a narrow 

 parallel street, with blind turnings leading 

 into it ; but both are generally choked with 

 cabs, driven badly and recklessly by Turkish 

 boys, strings of pack-animals, and troops on 

 the march. So it is clearly not the place 

 one would care to work an awkward team 

 through, especially as at its narrowest, 

 crookedest part there is a sharp and totally 

 unnecessary hill, which the municipality does 

 not seem to dream might easily be levelled. 



