Buda-Pesth and Its Language—From Buda-Pesth to Belgrade—The Servian Passport System—First Impressions of Belgrade—Garden Spots in and about the Servian Metropolis 12 CHAPTER III TWENTIETH CENTURY SERVIA The Servians—The Rise of the Nation—The Army—The Race-meets—The Market in Belgrade—National Customs—The National Dance 24 CHAPTER IV THE SERVIAN DYNASTIES Karageorge—Milosh Obrenovitch—Murder of Karageorge—Turkey Grants the Title of Prince—Milosh Abdicates—Abdication of Prince Michael—Alexander Abdicates—Prince Milosh Re-installed, His Death and the Re-election of Prince Michael—Murder of Michael—Prince Milan’s Marriage, Abdication and Death—Alexander Elected 43 CHAPTER V ALEXANDER AND DRAGA Alexander—Draga—The Meeting—Draga’s Return to Belgrade—Russia’s Intrigues—Marriage of Alexander and Draga—Origin of the Plot to Murder 53 CHAPTER VI THE CAPITAL OF CRIME Plans of Procedure—Meeting of the Regicides—The First Move—The Murder of the King and Queen—The Assassination of Others—The Royal Burial—The Murder of the Brothers Novakovics in 1907 61 CHAPTER VII PREDICTIONS OF SERVIAN TRAGEDIES Prediction of the Assassination of Prince Michael—Natalie’s Visit to the Parisian Fortune-teller—The Prediction in London of the Murder of Draga and Alexander 78 CHAPTER VIII NISCH AND SOPHIA From Belgrade to Nisch—Nisch—Provincial Hotel Accommodations—The Monument of Skulls—Tzaribrod—Sophia—Value Received for $1.25 per Diem—Dragoleftsky 94 CHAPTER IX BULGARIA AND HER PAST Progress of Bulgaria—Origin of her Peoples—The Bulgari—First Russian Invasion of Bulgaria—The Assenide Dynasty—Turkish Tyrannies—Emancipation of Bulgaria—Russia’s Intrigues against Prince Alexander—The Late Balkan Disturbances 111 CHAPTER X A BULGARIAN MARKET Bulgaria’s Busy Day—The Orient Express 130 CHAPTER XI SARAJEVO—THE SPIRED CITY From Belgrade to Sarajevo—The Turkish Bazaar—A Bosnian Street Sprinkler—Horse-races at Ylidze—A Dervish Dance 145 CHAPTER XII FROM SARAJEVO TO THE COAST Jablaniča—Mostar—Across the Mountains—The Balkan Riviera—Ragusa: The Fairy City of the Adriatic 166 CHAPTER XIII RAGUSA As She Is—The First Colony—The Fire of 1292—The Black Death—Hungary Acquires the Place—Ragusa Establishes her Independence—Plague—Earthquake—Napoleon Takes Ragusa—The City Ceded to Austria 179 CHAPTER XIV THE BOCCHE DI CATTARO