or, is from the Ku[vc]i,
near Podgorica--and he was a magistrate under Nikita; that Bojovi['c],
the prefect of Podgorica, is a barrister of the Piperi, while
Radoni['c], the mayor, was an artillery officer, then a political
prisoner and then the food administrator under Nikita; that
Jaoukovi['c], the prefect of Nik[vs]i['c], was a magistrate under the
old regime--he comes, I believe, from the Mora[vc]a; Zerovi['c], the
mayor and an ex-magistrate, is a native of Nik[vs]i['c]; that the
prefect of Antivari, Dr. Goini['c], is a doctor of law whose home is
between Antivari and Virpazar; that Bo[vs]ko Bo[vs]kovi['c], the prefect
of Kola[vc]in, won great fame as an officer under Nikita, while
Mini['c], the mayor, was Nikita's chief of the Custom-house. As for the
doctors who left the country, these consisted of Matanovi['c] and
Vulanovi['c], who have gone to Novi Sad and Subotica respectively, as it
is easier to make a living in those towns than in Montenegro. There are
now three Yugoslav doctors at Cetinje (Odgerovi['c], Radovi['c]--both of
whom were doctors in the time of Nikita--and Matanovi['c], a young man);
they are all Montenegrins. So, too, with the chemists and the
schoolmasters and the post and telegraph officials--I am sure that Mr.
Massingham will excuse me if I do not mention all their names.

Since there are quite a number of Montenegrins in the Serbian
administration and army, all the officers and men, for example, of the
2nd--the so-called "iron"--Regiment being of Montenegrin origin, one
fails to see for what reason a Serb should be debarred from posts in
Montenegro. It is unfortunate when people use the word "Montenegrin"
without knowing that there is no separate Montenegrin nation, in the
sense that there is a French or Italian nation. The Montenegrins are a
small section of the Serbian nation, which sought a refuge among the
bare, precipitous mountains and, unlike the other Serbs, maintained its
independence. One should, therefore, to avoid confusion, speak of Serbs
of Serbia and Serbs of Montenegro rather than of Serbs and Montenegrins.
The purest Serbian is spoken in western Montenegro, on the borders of
Herzegovina; those districts are ethnically different from the southern
region, centring round Cetinje, which is the real old Montenegro, and
the north and north-eastern parts, called the Brda, which in speech and
customs are akin to the south. In western Montenegro, as in Herzegovina,
the people, who liv