310 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



We looked forward with great interest to our 

 move to the Upper Narenta valley, feeling our- 

 selves almost explorers in going there. It is true 

 I had been preceded thither by two Englishmen— 

 our consul for this district and a general officer, 

 both keen fishermen ; but I believe I am right in 

 claiming for my wife that she, at all events, was 

 the first Englishwoman to see the beauties of this 

 romantic neighbourhood. 



Of course the first thing to be done was to 

 strike camp, which we did one morning, and trans- 

 ported everything to the Lakat barrack by ox- 

 waggon, in readiness to leave next day. We had 

 a good deal of trouble with our pack-animals, or 

 rather with their owners, that morning ; and after 

 I had sent one horse back to Nevesinje with boxes 

 we could spare, they protested they could not 

 possibly manage with the remaining two. (The 

 fourth was for my wife, I preferring to walk the 

 score of miles we had to go to enduring the 

 miseries of a native saddle for six or seven hours.) 

 My reply was that they had promised to transport 



