enne_, Paris, 1898) remarks
very truly, "n'est pas banal." One of his historians relates
that he was furnished with a sword, a lance, javelins and
arrows trimmed with falcons' feathers, sometimes also with a
sabre and a small axe. He was garbed in a cloak of wolf's
skin, using the same skin for his cap, round which was wound
a dark piece of cloth. On his saddle was a scarf of silk. The
reins of his horse were gilded, and he carried in his right
hand a javelin of iron, gold and silver, weighing 150 lb.
(?), and this he balanced on the left side with a large skin
of wine. On his back was a magnificent cloak, and behind him
there was a folded tent.]

[Footnote 19: _Monumenta Serbica_, edited by F. Miklosi['c].]

II

FIGHTING THE DARKNESS

THE VENETIANS IN DALMATIA--METHODS OF THE TURK--THE SLAVS WHO
MIGRATED--THE CONSOLATION OF THOSE WHO REMAINED--GOOD LIVING IN
HUNGARY--THE PROTESTANT INFLUENCE--DUBROVNIK, REFUGE OF THE ARTS--HOW
SHE SMOOTHED HER WAY--HER COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE--HER NORTHERN KINSMEN
AND THE MILITARY FRONTIERS--THE OPPRESSIVE OVERLORDS OF THE
YUGOSLAVS--THE GREAT MIGRATION UNDER THE PATRIARCH--ACTIVITIES OF THE
SOUTHERN SLAVS UNDER THE HABSBURGS--THE POSITION OF THEIR
CHURCH--SERBS ASSIST THE BULGARIAN RENASCENCE--THE GERMAN COLONISTS IN
THE BANAT--THE SOUTHERN SLAV COLONISTS AND THEIR RELIGION--BUNJEVCI,
[vS]OKCI AND KRA[vS]OVANI.

THE VENETIANS IN DALMATIA

One might argue that the Slav of Dalmatia had no gratitude, because
when Serbia and Bosnia were utterly under the Turk, when the Slovenes
of Carniola, Carinthia and Southern Styria suffered between 1463 and
1528 no less than ten Turkish invasions, when in the middle of that
fifteenth century the crescent floated over all Croatia and only the
fortified towns of the seacoast and the islands remained in the
Christian hands of Venice, whom a fair number of these towns and
islands had called in to protect them, surely one might argue that it
was not seemly if the local population, Croats and Serbs, detested the
Venetians. And on hearing that not long ago an orator in the Italian
Parliament exclaimed, "I cani croati!"--a description that was greeted
with a whirlwind of applause--you possibly might argue that the
Speaker should have reprimanded him because ingratitude is not a
quality associated with dogs.

As we gaze at the splendid structures, the palaces, the forts, the
magnificent cathedra