enthetically that the handjar is
essentially the national weapon. I do not know if the Blue Mountaineers
take it to bed with them, but they certainly wear it everywhere else.
Its drawing seems to emphasize everything in national life . . .

We embarked again on the warships--one a huge, steel-plated Dreadnought,
up to date in every particular, the other an armoured yacht most complete
in every way, and of unique speed. The King and Queen, the Lords of the
Council, together with the various high ecclesiastics and great
officials, went on the yacht, which the Lord High Admiral, a man of
remarkably masterful physiognomy, himself steered. The rest of those
present at the Coronation came on the warship. The latter went fast, but
the yacht showed her heels all the way. However, the King's party waited
in the dock in the Blue Mouth. From this a new cable-line took us all to
the State House at Plazac. Here the procession was reformed, and wound
its way to a bare hill in the immediate vicinity. The King and
Queen--the King still wearing the ancient bronze crown with which the
Archbishop had invested him at St. Sava's--the Archbishop, the Vladika,
and the four Archimandrites stood together at the top of the hill, the
King and Queen being, of course, in the front. A courteous young
gentleman, to whom I had been accredited at the beginning of the day--all
guests were so attended--explained to me that, as this was the national
as opposed to the religious ceremony, the Vladika, who is the official
representative of the laity, took command here. The ecclesiastics were
put prominently forward, simply out of courtesy, in obedience to the wish
of the people, by whom they were all greatly beloved.

Then commenced another unique ceremony, which, indeed, might well find a
place in our Western countries. As far as ever we could see were masses
of men roughly grouped, not in any uniform, but all in national costume,
and armed only with the handjar. In the front of each of these groups or
bodies stood the National Councillor for that district, distinguishable
by his official robe and chain. There were in all seventeen of these
bodies. These were unequal in numbers, some of them predominating
enormously over others, as, indeed, might be expected in so mountainous a
country. In all there were present, I was told, over a hundred thousand
men. So far as I can judge from long experience of looking at great
bodies of men, the estimat