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cartridge and substituted native slugs for it, which 

 considerably discounted the merits of the shot? 

 but the critics probably did not know this. 



I need hardly say the rude waggons of the 

 Velez villages had disappeared. Glavaticevo, 

 though sufficiently civilized to boast a telegraph 

 wire, which, however, does not involve telegraphic 

 communication therewith, is only supplied with 

 those things it cannot produce by pack-animals, 

 and this is likely to be the case for many a year to 

 come. The natives, mostly Mohammedans, as in 

 the Yelez, are less rough than the latter. They 

 gave us no trouble in the camp ; and not even my 

 shooting-kilt, which had been an object of constant 

 curiosity in the mountains, was too strange to 

 overcome their sense of decorum. 



A curious feature of this district are the hay 

 and corn stacks, which are always arranged on a 

 tree, round whose central trunk the branches are 

 cut so as to support the pile. 



The plentiful fruit of the district was un- 

 fortunately over when we arrived, except, indeed, 

 the walnuts, which were selling at three-farthings 

 a pound. There was, however, an extraordinary 

 show of wild berries, such as hips, haws, privet, 

 and so forth. One bush, which was loaded with 

 fruit, was new to me. Its fruit was plum-shaped, 

 a little larger than a bean, with a large stone, and, 

 though not very good eating in its natural state, 



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