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A charming old major came to the inn to do us the honour we had
telegraphed for, and together we strolled about the streets. There is a
pretty Greek church at one end on a formal mound, and behind the town
runs a sheer fin of rock topped by an old castle where once had lived
another man who "was a gooman all to hisself;" now it is a monastery,
and one of the most picturesque in Montenegro.
We dined upon beautiful trout fresh from the river, and large green
figs. Undressing, Jan found a louse in his shirt--that came from the
dirty bedroom at Shavnik evidently. He went to bed, but his troubles
were not yet over; there was another foreign presence, a presence which
raised large and itching lumps. He hunted without success for some time,
but at last caught and exterminated an enormous bug. After which there
was peace.
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CHAPTER VII
TO CETTINJE

The rain poured all night. At five o'clock they called us, telling us
_not_ to wake up as the motor would come later.


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