Photo by Felix J. Koch 



A wate;r-carrie;r in Herzegovina 



Note that the woman spins as she drives the donkey. The divided skirt originated here 



most peculiar form. Croatia and Dal- 

 matia are Roman Catholic, while Monte- 

 negro adheres to the Russo-Greek 

 church. 



The language of all these regions is the 

 Servian-Croatian. In Dalmatia, Italian 

 is everywhere understood ; English, Ger- 

 man, or French rarely ; while in Bosnia 

 German is serviceable. In Montenegro 

 the sign-language will be found useful, 

 although occasionally a man will be 

 found who speaks Italian or German. 



In Montenegro the Russian alphabet 

 is used ; in Dalmatia, the Roman, al- 



though the language is the same. In 

 Bosnia both alphabets are used side by 

 side, and before the formal annexation, 

 Turkish signs were frequently to be seen ; 

 sometimes one name would be repeated 

 in the three alphabets. 



The Austrian coinage prevails through- 

 out the region, and the coins of the dif- 

 ferent countries are interchanged. Each 

 country has, however, its own postage 

 stamps, and those purchased at Fiume. 

 for instance, being Hungarian, are use- 

 less in Trieste or Zara. The stamps of 

 Bosnia were among the most beautiful 



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