Photo from Katiice Nicolsoij 



SOME MOUNTAIN WOMEN IN MONTENEGRO 



From Podgoritza north one passes 

 Danilograd, where the King has estab- 

 Hshed a flourishing agricultural experi- 

 ment station which will probably be 

 found of use to his people, now that 

 their thirst for blood has been slaked, 

 and an asylum for the insane, which is 

 almost tenantless. 



Next comes Niksic, another of the 

 spoils of the last war, where the King 

 has built a villa directly facing the old 

 Turkish fortress which he had captured 

 and from whose ramparts he proudly 

 flies the royal standard when he is in 

 residence. Next to the villa stands the 

 church, a fine structure, designed by 

 Nicholas and erected to the memory of 

 the heroes of the war of ^"JJ. Here, too, 

 is the principal prison of the realm, 

 whose inmates are allowed great free- 

 dom, and the one symbol of progress of 

 all the world — a brewery. 



Between Danilograd and Niksic lies 

 Ostrog, the famous mountain monastery 

 and stronghold, whither withdrew, two 



centuries ago, St. Vasili, Metropolitan oi 

 the Herzegovina, and founded the shrine' 

 so often besieged and so valiantly de- 

 fended — once by only 28 men, under 

 Mirko, King Nicholas' father, who held 

 at bay 10,000 Turks for eight days and 

 then succeeded in making his escape at 

 night. 



THE PORT OE MONTENEGRO 



Antivari, the chief seaport, is a thriv- 

 ing place. Taken by Nicholas himself 

 during the Russo-Turkish war, he has 

 built a new town directly on the shore, 

 two miles or more from the old Turkish 

 city, up among the Albanian foothills. 

 Here is one of the numerous royal villas, 

 and here the Italian concessionaires have 

 poured out their lire in making a port 

 and building a railroad which zigzags up 

 the hills and darts through a tunnel near 

 the summit before beginning its tortuous 

 descent to the Lake of Scutari beyond. 



There is little commerce and almost 

 no manufactures in the Black Mountain. 



296 



