strians a sufficient number of men, to whom three or four crowns a day
would be paid. Any man who disregarded the potentate's summons was
thrashed by him, and thrashed in such a way that for three days he was
prostrate. The late Chief of Police at Sarajevo, Mr. Ljescovac, was
(being a Bosnian subject) administering this district during the
Austrian occupation. He tried frequently to get particulars from the men
who had been so mercilessly flogged, with a view to opening an inquiry.
Their invariable answer was: "I know nothing."

In the days of Charles, another member of the Topia family, a copyist,
who was in his service, was transcribing the Chronicle of George
Hamartolos, and twice, thinking of his master, he inserts: "God, help
Charles Topia." As we leave the Serb and the Albanian face to face,
sensitive, imaginative, tenacious people, both with very ancient claims,
we must hope that a happy solution will be found. After all Serbia,
being in Yugoslavia, is now a Muhammedan and a Catholic Power. She has
men at her disposal, such as Major Musakadi['c], a Bosnian Moslem who
deserted from the Austrian army to the Serbs, fought with them on
several fronts and received the highest decoration for valour, the Kara
George; then, after the War, he was sent by the Government to command at
Br['c]ko, a place in his native Bosnia where there is a Moslem majority.
A few of the Orthodox protested energetically that they would not have a
Moslem over them; they were received by the Minister of Justice in
Belgrade. "Gentlemen," said he, "go back to Br['c]ko and when anyone of
you has earned the Cross of Kara George I shall be glad to see him here
again." ... As in the old days, the Serbian civilization is far
superior, but this is not everything; that the Albanian is ready to meet
it with peace or war he shows clearly as he glides along in his white
skull-cap, his close-fitting white and black costume, with his
panther-like tread and with several weapons and an umbrella.

But for the various reasons to which we have alluded he is now much more
inclined to live in peace with the Yugoslav. Very differently, except if
they are charged with gifts, does he receive the Italians; even at the
moment of accepting their gifts of military material and cash he regards
them with a more or less concealed derision, for he is impressed, as we
have pointed out, by nothing so much as by military prowess and the
reverse, whereof the news is carried far a