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heretics could have transported these great blocks 

 up here. No doubt all of those who lie here fell in 

 battle, for the strategic importance of the spot is 

 obvious. Indeed, it seemed to me that several of 

 the Bogumilite monoliths had been overthrown to 

 form a rude breastwork for some of the Turks, 

 whose turban-headed gravestones also dot the hill- 

 side. 



Here we left this path, and wound up and up 

 the hill to our left, a magnificent eagle soaring 

 above us. After an hour or more of this, we came 

 suddenly out on the edge of a tremendous gorge, 

 in the bottom of which the Grusca brook flows. 

 From a detached peak of rock Joso and I had a 

 preliminary spy, but in vain, among the pines on 

 the opposite side ; so we went on. Half a mile 

 further on we came out on another point of 

 vantage ; and after a long search the sound of a 

 rolling stone guided our eyes to a small herd. 

 Joso, however, decided this was not good enough, 

 and that he would take me to a better place " a 

 little further on." 



Now, this was the beginning of all my troubles, 

 for we wound on and on over the broken table- 

 land of the Visocica for hours, till at last we 

 reached the summer huts of Colavici, now 

 deserted, and deposited our impedimenta in one 

 of them. Joso even left his baggy breeches and 

 his turban, continuing his walk in skull-cap and 



