6o ON THE ROAD 



formerly five or six was not uncommon. 

 Still it is wonderful how much road a man 

 and three horses, loaded, say with straw, and 

 linked by ropes ten feet long, will take up. 

 Secondly, their guns have been spiked, in 

 other words the bells on the horses' necks 

 must be plugged with grass before they enter 

 the town. But it often falls out, and nobody 

 seems to care. 



For a capital with a garrison of a good 

 many thousand men, Mostar is singularly 

 deficient in private carriages of any descrip- 

 tion ; and the bulk of these, as in so many 

 places abroad, are of an appearance calculated 

 to make one wonder at the time our Improve- 

 ments in coach-building take to reach countries 

 so easily accessible. For shooting purposes 

 the India tonga would be especially adapted : 

 to the ponies of the country, a suitable pair 



