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Yet at this very spot the mounted troops are 

 continually messino- with their forage, and 

 blocking;- the street with horses and wai^gons 

 — a thing- which surely would not be per- 

 mitted elsewhere. 



The Mostar cabs are one of the nuisances 

 of the place. Dear, dirty, and badly driven 

 as they are, they are, nevertheless, perhaps 

 more of a nuisance to those who do not use 

 them than to those who do. Durinsf a few 

 months' residence I had several narrow 

 shaves, and though a report to the town 

 sub-prefect always ensured the jarvey's being 

 locked up for a day or two to cool his ardour, 

 the nuisance seemed to abate but little. 

 Somethino- has been done to abate the 

 second nuisance, the pack-animals. Firstly, 

 the number which may be led by a single 

 man or woman is limited to three, whereas 



