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a week one can get off with a dozen hours there, 

 but generally it is eighteen. The eighty odd 

 miles on to Sarajevo take eight or nine hours 

 more, and there another night has to be passed. 

 The down journey is quite as bad. I can see 

 no reason why the train should not leave Metkovic 

 after the steamers are all in, say at seven p.m., 

 and run right through in time to catch the 

 morning train at Sarajevo. 



At the upper end of the Pocitelj gorge the 

 Narenta, now reduced to the proportions of a 

 mountain torrent — and, by the way, an excellent 

 trouting stream — falls over a rock barrier, which, 

 though only some five or six feet high, must be 

 a hundred yards long. The place is called Buna. 

 Here, too, the Baracrusa runs into it under an 

 old Roman bridge of thirteen arches. At the 

 time of the Turkish conquest of the Herzegovina, 

 many noble families emigrated from this place to 

 Zengg, in Croatia. Their descendants still live 

 there, and still call themselves " Bunjevci." 



Passing a wide plain, the line reaches a point 

 whence a glimpse of the Herzegovinian capital 

 with its old Turkish bridge and the minarets of 

 its thirty-three mosques can be obtained ; and 

 then runs through a purely Turkish quarter, 

 where the unveiled women rush into their houses 

 with well-affected surprise as we glide past, and 

 we are in Mostar. 



