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more, leaving the rest of the trees to rot. 

 It Is just worthy of remark that those that 

 are not so destroyed eventually strike down 

 to the lower ground, and at forty to fifty 

 years old present no signs of having grown 

 in this way. For this, however, the snow, 

 which every year brings down stones, earth, 

 and decaying branches, is pardy responsible, 

 in that it covers them up. 



The ordinary tourist does not go off the 

 roads at all in the Herzegovina, rarely, 

 indeed, off the railroad, and it must be con- 

 fessed he sees very little of it. Personally 

 I saw a great deal of it, and it was rarely 

 that I heard of two Eno-Hshmen havin^r been 



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before me, sometimes of one, and very often 

 I had the satisfaction of knowing I was the 

 pioneer. But for such journeys one must 

 leave all hope of roads behind, and take to 



