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but of the enormous efforts made to attract 

 travellers. At Ilidze Spa, near Sarajevo, there 

 is an annual race-meeting with good added money. 

 The distance is a little too far for Englishmen to 

 send horses, but the handsome pigeon-shooting 

 prizes might attract some, at all events, of those 

 who also like free game-shooting. 



Of course all is not yet done, Herculean as the 

 efforts have been. To me it seemed that three 

 crying needs of the country were roads, doctors, 

 and schools. From the Velez to the Monte- 

 negrin frontier, and westward from the Narenta 

 at Raskagora to that of Dalmatia, near Imoski, 

 there is not an inch of even the roughest road. 

 The people are born and die like their cattle ; 

 their children grow up as ignorant as them- 

 selves. No country can progress in this way. 

 But to know these things one must leave the 

 beaten tracks, and not one traveller in ten thou- 

 sand does that. 



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I also, however, have left the beaten tracks of 

 sport, and must " hark back." I have described 

 the sort of sport which filled up our time till the 

 end of the year, when the stern game laws of 

 the province cut us off from all shooting, even 

 of woodcock and pigeons, till the next emperor's 

 birthday (August 18). All they leave, to those 

 who care to take out a licence on purpose, is wild- 



