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bulk are infantry. The artillery are mostly moun- 

 tain batteries, the beast of transport being the 

 native pony. Unlike ours, the gun these batteries 

 use is in one piece, and therefore smaller than 

 ours. This branch is affiliated in the Austrian 

 service to the Field Artillery, and all the officers 

 are mounted, in contrast to ours, which is (or 

 was) connected with the Garrison Artillery, and 

 only has the field officers mounted. The Herze- 

 govinian conscripts join the Bosnian regiments 

 or the Train. 



Everything here reminds one that we are 

 under a military occupation. The post and 

 telegraph offices are military, and, I am afraid, 

 leave a good deal to be desired. Nevertheless, 

 we pay more here for parcels, etc., than anywhere 

 else in Europe. The diligences are worked 

 throughout by military authority, the very roads 

 on which they run being patrolled by troops. 

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 The administration of the Herzegovina is at 

 once simple and admirable, and its results are a 

 triumphant justification of the methods of civiliza- 

 tion. If we consider what the province was — say, 

 in 1876 — and look at it now twenty years later, 

 it seems almost impossible that so much can have 

 been achieved in so short a time. It was then, 

 to put the matter simply, exactly what Albania 

 is now. There were no roads, no sanitation, no 



