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A blue ridge of pine trees appeared on our right hand.
"You see those hills," said the Sirdar: "I'll tell you the story of a
reply of mine, a funny reply. I ordered a general last winter to march
across those hills. He said that the troops would starve. I looked him
in the eye. Then you will eat wolves, I shouted. He went."
If we passed peasants he stopped them. He seemed to have an
extraordinary memory for names and faces.
"Never forget a face," he said, "never forget its name. That is the
secret of popularity."
He was very anxious that we should go to Cettinje and to Scutari. He
kindly promised to see about it, to arrange for our horses and to have
our passage telegraphed before us. At Podgoritza he said a government
motor-car should wait for us. He advised us to make a detour from the
straight road and to see the famous black lake of Jabliak and the
Dormitor mountains. We thanked him gratefully. He waved our thanks
aside.
"And I will write to my friend the Minister of War.


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