'A study of the smaller peoples assuredly is to gain a greater conception of what nationalism really means; the smaller people who remain a people by virtue of their extraordinary virility, their nationality in spit size, whose strength is developed by constantly repeated attacks a their independence. The Montenegrins, whove total population borders only on five hundred ti,-sand all told and whose countryside could easily be contained within the boundary lines of the three counties Kent, Surrey and Sussex, possess the quality of self-preservation strongly marked. Every man a soldier, the Montenegrin "at all {times goes armed, his pistol and yataghan, to say nothing of his long pipe, tucked into his gaudy girdle, he carries @ rifle even in times of comparative peace. ° He is universally educated and possesses facility for the exchange of his weapon for a pen, while his birthright makes him an agriculturist of infinite resource.
Entering Montenegro from the Dalmatian port, Cattaro, & precipitous pass has to be negotiated.
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