j 76 The National Geographic Magazine 



Photo by F. J. Koch 



the metropolitan on coronation day: Belgrade, servia 



lin) was that the government should pay 

 the Turkish landlords for their estates, 

 which was done. The farms were then 

 divided among the people. Servia has a 

 population of about 2,600,000 and Mon- 

 tenegro about 250,000. 



"Servia has been aptly christened 'The 

 Poor Man's Paradise,' for we traveled 

 from end to end of the country without 

 encountering a single beggar, while the 

 agricultural laborer seemed almost as 



affluent as a small farmer in England- 

 But Servians have a prettier name for 

 their native land, 'The Garden of the 

 Balkans,' which it undoubtedly is, being 

 the most picturesque and fertile of all the 

 Balkan states. The farther you roam 

 inland from the flat, marshy banks of the 

 Danube the richer becomes the soil and 

 more beautiful the scenery, although this 

 is not, like Bosnia, a land of comfort and 

 security. Here you must rough it, some- 



