the Slav in the Middle Ages was blocked
by the inopportune arrival of the Turks; it is in the nature of man that
the Albanian was more impressed by the brilliant young States of the
early princes, with that barbarically sumptuous residence at Scutari
(the Catholics of Scutari also being in the diocese of Antivari, which
was under Serb domination) than, centuries later, when he found himself
confronted with the pitiable population of Old Serbia.

In the Sandjak the task of Yugoslavia will be relatively simple; the
Albanians who live there are not autochthonous, but arrived at the
beginning of the eighteenth century on the plateau of Pechter. These
Klementi--then very numerous--cared nothing for their Serbian origin, so
that the Patriarch of Pe['c] had to protect himself against them by
means of a janissary guard--which the Sultan permitted him to maintain
at his own expense--whereas they were attentive to the teachings of
their religion, in so far as they obeyed the Catholic missionaries who
dwelt among them and requested that in their forays they should confine
themselves to Muhammedan and Orthodox booty. One of the places they
attacked was Plav, from which they drove the population, and themselves
henceforward took to living on the fertile fields in summer, while they
spent the winter in some mountain caverns. But after seven years a large
proportion of this tribe went back to its ancestral stronghold in the
Brdo range, from which the Turks had transplanted them to the Sandjak.
This wish of theirs to go to their old home was gratified after they
had beaten off the Turks triumphantly in various engagements on the way,
and even pursued them to their trenches.... The Klementi who had stayed
on the Pechter were further depleted a few years later, when their
kinsfolk, answering the appeal of the Archbishop of Antivari, rode up
there and carried off fifty families who were on the eve of renouncing
their religion. The final group which remained became Moslem, and with
such ardour that when the Serbs of Kara George reached the Sandjak they
found that these Klementi were completely Islamized; they resisted the
Serbian army with the utmost resolution. Subsequently they attempted to
convert the Serbian population round them, but with mediocre success,
for the Klementi themselves were not too strong; moreover, they were
isolated from the other Muhammedan Albanians.

And yet certain incidents which occurred in the Sandjak during t