Photo by Kmma G. Cunimings 

 GREKK PEASANT STANDING BEFORE HIS HOUSE, P-ETWEEN BRAI.O AND DELPHI 



The tobacco is excellent, and an Italian 

 company has its monopoly. A few 

 coarse stuffs are woven at Podgoritza, 

 but practically everything is imported. 

 Duties are high and prices are extortion- 

 ate. 



Happily the people's wants are simple ; 

 but to bring even a scanty living from 

 the reluctant soil requires unremitting 

 industry. Everywhere, in sheltered nooks 

 and upon the gentler slopes, the earth 

 has been painstakingly gathered up be- 

 hind retaining walls, and the gray hill- 

 sides are dotted with these little patches 

 of green, most of them no larger than a 

 tablecloth. 



Near the Lake of Scutari the vine 

 grows luxuriantly, and it is one of the 

 King's hopes that some day, when perma- 

 nent peace shall have fallen upon the 

 lUack Mountain, the fertile meadows may 

 l)e drained and cultivated and that Mon- 

 tenegro may become the granary of that 

 portion of the world. 



RELIGION AND EDUCATION 



The established religion of the land is, 

 of course. Orthodox Greek. The clergy, 

 headed by the ]\Ietropolitan of Cetinje. 

 are a splendid lot of men in physique and 

 character. The Catholics, numbering 

 some 13.000, have their own archbishop 



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