Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-06-25
A Trim Through Bosnia.

It was impossible to go about sarajevo.
morning. noon and evening, without feel
ing oneself in a Turkish town. Everywhere
one is in contact With the Turk. a taller,
cleaner. straiGhter Turk than IN Turkey.
and perhaps still more OF a Turk. The
women here are yelled with q strictness !
have seen nowhere else; a black hood COW
crs a white veil. which not only completely
conceals the face. but seems Opaque. Only
the young girls are barc-faced. The mems
good looks and fine bearing doubtless owe
something TO tile Bosnian national dress,
for the Turk here has no flowing robes. but
black knickerbockers. close fitting. a red
sash. and a black close jacket. while the
Christian Bosniacks show the same forms
IN white or in many-colored embroidery,
The Turkish women year a hideous form Of
divided skirt, which added to the ugly
veil, gives them a clumsy appearance and
an awkward gait.
After two nights at Sarajcvo. ! took a
midday train to Jajce pronounced Yaitsc),
about ninety-nine miles, but. also. a ten
hours journey by the narroW-gauge line,
my object being to have a days drive
through the heart Of Bosnia from Jajce to
Banjaluka. During the railway journey the
country was always beautiful, and the Turk
ish villages and towns with their white or
black minarets peeping out IT the trees
/ gave 1t a peculiar charm / Hlllttu iui MOI
and Christian women together in the fields
and saw many signs that the different Gle
ments Of the population got on well together
in spite Of political agitations. It seemed
| strange as the dusk came ON the train was
getting through its shuuting at one Of the
small stations, TO have the bumpings ac-
companled by the cvensong OF the night
ingale.
/ Jajace is a very pretty town with old
castle and walls, and with a surprisingly
, fine waterfall by which the Pllvas falls, a
dlminuttve Niagara, into the Wrbas tpro-
pounred VerbasD. The diligence (Which
means a landeau and pair for one solitary
traveIcr) starts at 6 a m. ana the new
| road follows tho wrbas for forty-five miles
to Banjaluka. 1t is a most delightful drive.
for the road for the first four hours follows
a gorge through the rocks where room had
fust been made for it beside the great tor
rent below. and where from time 10 time 1t
has no room and must pass through the
cuffs I'm a tunnel About II We halt for
lunch at a village surrounded by a mediae-
val castle high up above the cIft' From
nov on the dcfiie loses its rocky charae-
ter and comes to resemble, though on q
erandor scale. the valley Of the Wye in
Derbvshire. a Mlller's Dale twenty miles
long. The green hillsidcs are variegated
vim cherry trees in blossom. and where
there is a village 1t has its minaret Of wood
About . we pass a Turkish village full 81
mosques. and their wooden minarets all In
closed in the fresh green Of luxuriant woods
and watcred by the Wrbas, here no longer
a torrent. II is the %prettiest Turkish vii
lage ! have yet seen. Then we enter Ban
ialuka. a Turkish town much Austriacized'
with ugly modern buildings. with a street
Of pretty Austrian villas and the station Of
tho "Miiftary Roadway" where the %refrcrn
ment room serves also. as the officers ball
room. and has on the wall. instead Of the
hill Of fare. the order of dances" The
military Railway needed ten hours 10
bring me. by about . in the morning. to
Aeram.-spenser Wilkinson in London Post