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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt:... CHAPTER XXXVI. CHRISTMAS IN MONTENEGRO. Let Montenegro receive, nolens volens, some accession of territory on her north-west, west, and east frontiers, and let her be acknowledged by the world, as she is by Russia, an independent principality.... While things exist as at present, the development of these countries in agriculture and commerce is as impossible as in civilisation and Christianity.--Time*, Oct. 3, 1861.* TN order to get a more comprehensive view of places, '*' persons, and events, we have had in the last chapter to go backward instead of forward in our dates, and from a visit to Scodra after the war, to pass to a review of incidents that occurred during the war; a final crab-step takes us to Montenegro, to see how things looked before the war began. * Since the date of the above there have been many negotiations with the object of obtaining a port for the Montenegriaes, and more than onoe it has been rumoured that they are to be allowed to occupy one or other of the little harbours in their neighbourhood. At the moment we write a similar rumour prevails, and it is much to be hoped that this time it may prove correct, for the smallest port is better than none; and if the mountaineers find they can obtain what is needful for them by negotiation, they will not be pushed to try the first chance of war. As to the expectation that peace and civilisation in this part of the world would be furthered by the Highlanders acquiring an outlet to the sea, where they could hold intercourse with foreigners and gain a livelihood by commerce, all such expectations presuppose that the port of Montenegro is to be large and commodious enough to become the resort of merchants and to employ a considerable body of people. But it is one thing to...