Photo from Katrice Nicolson 

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nations contented themselves with send- 

 ing letters of felicitation by the hands 

 of their ministers in residence, and 

 among them the American alone was 

 able to hail Nicholas as King, for Mr. 

 Taft had taken care to address his great 

 and good friend as His Majesty, and 

 Nicholas has never forgotten that the 

 American President was the first chief 

 of state who addressed him as King. 



There, too, were the deputations from 

 all the clans of the Black Mountain, and 

 as they passed before the palace and 

 made their obeisance to the Gospodar 

 one was struck with the instinctive and 

 natural grace of these Highlanders, 

 whose courtesy is the fruit of their cen- 

 turies of freedom. 



MOTOR CARS ARE) SCARCI) 



Nicholas alone of Balkan monarchs 

 lives among his people — an undertaking 

 which is rendered easier by the limits 

 of his kingdom. At every considerable 

 town there is a royal villa, and among 

 the delights of life at Cetinje is the priv- 

 ilege of automobiling with the King to 

 spend the week end at Rieka, Krusovac, 

 Niksic, or Antivari. 



Practically the only motor cars in 

 Montenegro are those in use by royalty, 

 and as the machines purr along the splen- 

 did roads all the peasants working in the 

 fields, even the most distant, straighten 

 themselves and make a deep obeisance - 

 as the car passes, and at every halting! 

 place the people swarm up to see if they 

 may have the privilege of kissing the 

 royal hand. 



It has been my good fortune to make 

 frequent excursions of this kind, and 

 once, as we went to Niksic, we were less 

 than two hours from Cetinje when we 

 entered upon the territory which Nich- 

 olas himself had taken from the Turks 

 during the Russian war. Passing north 

 from Podgoritza, we soon passed the 

 old Turkish stronghold of Spuzh. Spuzh 

 is a perfectly conical hill set in the mid- 

 dle of the meadows of the Moraca River. 

 It had been a fortress in Venetian times, 

 and their old battlements, as strength- I 

 ened by the Turks, still crown its 

 heights. 



As we bowled along the King de- I 

 scribed the campaign which resulted in | 

 the capture of the fortress. On every 

 hand were the reminiscent landmarks. 



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