Year: 1875

il Montenegro when the various heads OF the insur-
rection became so eloquent behalf OF their cause
that Peko himself could wat longer and sent back
word to the Prince Of Montenegro that no had joined
the movement and could not 10 hear another
word about pacncaton II is to be supposed that
this intelligence created any profound sadness in the
breast OF the Prince. who knew that Peko would make
havoc among the Turks. Peko Is a giant in stature
but his frame IS somewhat broken by fatigue. His
knees are bent and his mighty have that
derful force which they possessed Still he would
pass anywhere in middle Europe for giant and Her
cules He has killed many Turks and cut OFF their
heads IN real Monenegrin fashion, and he never loses
an opportunity to put bullet into when he sees
him. Peko Is eternaly smoking gigantic chbouk
when he s not engaged IN securing the country, and
he only removes 1t from his lips TO look up slowly
yet hercey at any who asks him question, and
after several minutes of derberation to answer in
hoarse voice, accompanied by sweeping, heavy ges-
lures. He is barbarian in appearance but noble
man at heart His ferocity is engenderod by what he
considers the necessity OF freeing his counrymen from
| the Turkish yoke. He would not 60 out of his way
step save Turk from the most horrible tortures
Yet same time he would tenderly care for kid
with bruised leg and would not willingly harm n.y.
He was asked by the visitors for some crcumstantial
details Of the villages which he was reported to have
laid waste in this section He answered with the great
rankness stopping laboriousy to count on his I'm
gers or on a. tally board constructed Of little
pieces or wood which he carried at his side, the
Der OF houses burned OF persons killed After he
had rccited the fate OF number Of villages he
! asked concerning which he had not mentioned
looked up his questonerS then Strengthening out
his right arm, he drew it around in a huge circular
movement, as much as to say


'The village was razed to the ground"


l; was Peko, not Ljubibratich, who volunteered to
conduct the visitors to the reliquary which the rude
insurgents had formed in a wild nook in one of the
mountain passes the camp AS any familiar
with the history Of Turkey in Europe knows it has
from earliest times been the of victors battle
to cut of the heads of their The pre-
walls to-day, although, of course a much linn
tied extent than in barbarous times There
still be in certain portions OF the Turkish prov
nces towers ornamented with the skulls of murdered
Christians AT Cettinje in Montenegro there was for
many years on a rock which overhangs the town, col


lection Of Turkish heads always be grinning in
ghastly fashion from small round tower 1t only
a few years ago that this barbarty suppressed in
Montenegro by the vladica Danilo.


HIDEoUs cRUELrIEs.


In time it is easily revived The insurgents have
their temples where they learn to revive the hatred
which they their oppressors and Peko took the
visitors to see Of them. 1t at tho
foot of q withered tree that the visitors
the body of a Turkish Nzam, which had
been brought from the battle field below
and had been placed in an upright position. The arm
of the dead thrown around the neck and
Peko and his companions, forcing it back showed to
the visitors that the mans throat had been cut and
that the gaping wounds were filed with the worms of
corruption There also heads of Turks here
some thrown carelessly down upon the ground and
others arranged with some pretence of artistic skill
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visitors with horror and against which they could
refrain from demonstrating. Peko heard their
monstrances with kind of satisfied smile, but made
no answer whatever to them.


AS write this letter receive the news that the day
before yesterday Peko and his men, in conjunction with
the forces under Lubibratitch fell upon and
rounded the Turks guarding convoy from Kick and
routed them completely. A Montenegrin who in
the field and who arrived this morning by boat
severely wounded that he sixty five heads
cut of that friend Peko Doubtless thinks Of
establishing another relquary This barbarity prac-
tsed quite much for the purpose of filling
the minds OF tho Turkish regulars with for
any other reason. Yataghan charges fatal to
Turkish discipline as the bayone charges Of regular
troops to the vaor Of savages When the Monte
negrins throw aside their guns, grip their knives and
60 battle with rush, few Turks stand before them
There doubt that the battle of Wednesday,
Kick (at Utowa)so say the most reliable reports
characterized BY great barbarity The insurgents
do not pretend TO take any prisoners in battle They
finish the wounded BY cutting their throats As for
the Turks they retalate much possible by giving
quarter, although they strenuously deny the fact
Happily in this latitude the denial of Turk does not
carry much weight with it.


The insurgents had had nothing to eat except some
bread made Of the bitter which they grubbed up
the mountains for two days. at the epoch Of the Wis
itors arrival The men do not complain, as they are
recruited from class accustomed to hunger and thirst
to long abstinence from and to vigs in the forests
and the rocky plains. Their greatest suffer
ings caused by the mpossibity Of
getting plenty Of water. They have been several times
on the verge Of perishing from thirst In many Of the
valleys this almost desoate region at the gateway
Of the Herzegovina, there streams. Water is
luxury, brought from afar The camp has always bc
selected with view the water supply as well as to
defence, and long marches reach that supply are
sometimes necessary. The did not make any
complaints to their visitors Of the scarcity Of food


THE INSURGENTS EVER vGrLANr.


They all smoke their long pipes and their guns
their constant attendants They stack arms
No quits his weapons night or day; every one
is eternay vigiant The Turks on the contrary, are
often entirely of their guard and have noticed them
their little forresses and redoubts the Trebigne
road acting IN the most unguarded fashion when, to
my certain knowledge, the insurgents not fifteen
minutes march from them. The regulars. such Of
them from warmer climates, are half dead
with cold and nostalgia / q row OF them
standing melancholy and forlorn, on the edge
Of precipice at the top OF the great noun
tain which tho fortress OF Drena stands. The
beggars picturesque enough in their partcoored
garments which they had draped their great gray
coaks with hoods But they seemed out Of place with
their wild, strange Asatic faces and their curious,
Oriental ways In this kind Of Southern Switzerland,
thousands Of feet above the fertile valleys which
stretch toward the Adratic They scowed at the miss
which came in great sheets and clouds envelop their
stone fort and themselves in folds which the glorious
lent coer de rose which from the same
as tnge Of their hopes and Impressions The naked