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after five we reached the river, and ere long were 

 unloading in front of the pretty little defensive 

 barrack of Glavaticevo. 



This place played an important part in the 

 insurrection of 1882, for it was here that the in- 

 surgents made one of their most determined stands, 

 and in forcing the bridge (the present structure is 

 of more recent date) the Austrian troops lost 

 fourteen men. 



The village of Glavaticevo lies at an elevation 

 of 1130 feet, and, as the pass at Borovcici must be 

 over 3000 feet, some idea may be obtained of the 

 angle at which the track descends. We had now 

 reached the prettiest place I had yet seen in the 

 Herzegovina. The gendarmerie barrack stands in 

 a horseshoe curve of the stream — a position which 

 it shares with the mosque, the apex of whose 

 minaret is deftly covered with tin from old kerosene 

 cases. From the opposite side of the stream, but 

 a little lower down, the so-called " bishop's house," 

 which turned out to be a small Franciscan convent, 

 overlooks it. Below this the vale opens out, and 

 is closely cultivated, the maize-fields and walnut 

 trees being a proof we had reached a very different 

 climate. The river makes an endless succession 

 of S's, the one bank being always a tree-covered 

 bluff, and the other a cultivated slope fringed with 

 osiers. The cliff opposite the barrack is almost 

 bare limestone, but has a few pines growing on it ; 



