Return to Gasko--Thunderstorm--Attacked by Rebels--Enemy repulsed--Retrograde Movement--Eventful Night--Turkish Soldiers murdered--Montenegrin Envoy--Coal-Pit--Entrenched Camp assaulted--Return of Omer Pacha to Mostar--Distinctive Character of Mahometan Religion--Naval Reorganisation-- Military Uniforms--Return to Mostar--Dervisch Bey--Zaloum-- Express Courier--Giovanni--Nevresign--Fortified Barrack-- Mostar--Magazine--Barracks--Wooden Block-houses--European Commission--Tour of the Grand Vizier--Enquiry into Christian Grievances--Real Causes of Complaint--Forcible Abduction of Christian Girls--Prince Gortschakoff's Charges--The Meredits--Instincts of Race 190--214 CHAPTER XV. Excursion to Blato--Radobolya--Roman Road--Lichnitza-- Subterraneous Passage--Duck-shooting--Roman Tombs--Coins and Curiosities--Boona--Old Bridge--Mulberry Trees--Blagai--Source of Boona River--Kiosk--Castle--Plain of Mostar--Legends--Silver Ore--Mineral Products of Bosnia--Landslip--Marbles--Rapids--Valley of the Drechnitza 215--226 CHAPTER XVI. Wealthy Christians--German Encyclopædia--Feats of Skill--Legend of Petral--Chamois-hunting--Valley of Druga--Excavations--Country Carts--Plain of Duvno--Mahmoud Effendi--Old Tombs--Duvno--Fortress--Bosnian Frontier--Vidosa--Parish Priest--National Music--Livno-- Franciscan Convent--Priestly Incivility--Illness--Quack Medicines--Hungarian Doctor--Military Ambulance--Bosna Serai--Osman Pacha--Popularity--Roads and Bridges--Mussulman Rising in Turkish Croatia--Energy of Osman Pacha 227--242 CHAPTER XVII. Svornik--Banialuka--New Road--Sport--Hot Springs--Ekshesoo-- Mineral Waters--Celebrated Springs--Goitre--The Bosna--Trout Fishing--Tzenitza--Zaptiehs--Maglai--Khans--Frozen Roads--Brod--The Save--Austrian Sentry--Steamer on the Save--Gradiska--Cenovatz--La lingua di tré Regni--Cūlpa River--Sissek--Croatian Hotel--Carlstadt Silk--Railway to Trieste--Moravian Iron--Concentration of Austrian Troops--Probable Policy--Watermills--Semlin--Belgrade 243--258 SERVIA: Its Social, Political, and Financial Condition 261--285 CONCLUSION 286 APPENDIX 287--288 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. A MOONLIGHT BIVOUAC _Frontispiece._ OFFICIAL SEAL OF OMER PACHA _On Title-page._ SIGNATURE OF AUTHOR IN TURKISH CHARACTERS _page_ vi MAP OF MONTENEGRO _To face page_ 1 MAP OF SLAVONIC PROVINCES OF EUROPEAN TURKEY " 288 [Illustration: Map of Montenegro.] HERZEGOVINA. CHAPTER I.