ient to
perform the duties required of it. It is divided into horse and foot,
and is paid as follows per month:--

Horse Piastres
Binbashee (or Chief Officer) 1,000 per month
Uzbashee (or Captain) 600 "
Tchonch (Corporal or Sergeant) 250 "
Nefer (Private) 150 "

Foot Piastres
Tchonch 100 per month
Nefer 75 "

The Zaptiehs have frequently duties to perform which should only be
intrusted to men of honesty and sagacity, and it is consequently of
great importance to render the service attractive to trustworthy men. To
effect this the pay, more especially in the lower grades, should be
increased, and circumspection used in the selection of recruits. At
present this is far from being the case, many men of notoriously bad
character being employed, and these are driven to peculation and theft
for the means of supporting life. The mounted portion find their own
horses and forage, is very dear in many parts of the province.

[Footnote I: Many of the villages on the Montenegrin frontier no longer
exist, having been fired by the insurgents.]

[Footnote J: These are principally on the western banks of the Narenta,
outside Mostar.]

CHAPTER VII.

Omer Pacha--Survey of
Montenegro--Mostar--Bazaars--Mosques--Schools--Old Tower--Escape of
Prisoners--Roman Bridge--Capture by Venetians--Turkish
Officers--Pacha's Palace--European
Consulates--Clock-Tower--Emperor's Day--Warlike
Preparations--Christian Volunteers--Orders to March.

During the week which intervened between my arrival and the removal of
head-quarters to the seat of war, I had several interviews with Omer
Pacha. On these occasions he showed much kindness of disposition, and
took great trouble to explain to me the arrangements which he made for
the prosecution of the war against Montenegro in 1852, and to describe
the nature of campaigning in that province.

He expressed himself much pleased with a map of Montenegro which I had
presented to him, drawn by Major Cox, R.E., British Commissioner for
determining the new boundary line, but detected the absence of one or
two traversable paths, the existence of which I found to be correct when
I subsequently accompanied the army to those districts. The map