. Travels and politics in the Near East. of military society in Plevljeis the officers casino, a large roomy building, where oneevening, on the occasion of a military inspection, we sawsome sixty officers sit down to mess. The hall wasdecorated with flags—the Turkish among them in honourof a recent visit of the Pasha—with pictures and busts ofthe Emperor and Empress, and with devices, all the workof the officers, made out of fir-branches. There is a stage 192 in the Near East at the end of the room where gipsy music is performedduring dinner ; one of the performers being a left-handedsoldier w
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. Travels and politics in the Near East. of military society in Plevljeis the officers casino, a large roomy building, where oneevening, on the occasion of a military inspection, we sawsome sixty officers sit down to mess. The hall wasdecorated with flags—the Turkish among them in honourof a recent visit of the Pasha—with pictures and busts ofthe Emperor and Empress, and with devices, all the workof the officers, made out of fir-branches. There is a stage 192 in the Near East at the end of the room where gipsy music is performedduring dinner ; one of the performers being a left-handedsoldier who enjoys a high reputation in the country. Thestage is at other times used for amateur theatricals, anddances are held in this room. For Plevlje, remote as itis, possesses a considerable amount ot military society.There are no less than twenty-four ladies there, mostlyfrom Vienna, as the present regiment, largely composedof Hungarians and Roumanians from Transylvania, spentfive years in the Austrian capital before it came for three. THE t-ERB WUMEX, WHU HERE WEAK . . KILTS OVERTHEIK LONG GARMENTS. (Front a Photo, by Miss Cliadwick.) years to Plevlje. The sudden change from the Austriancapital to this place was no doubt much felt at first, butPlevlje enjoys the reputation, as one ofticer remarked tome, of a true marriage-market, and the girl who comesto Plevlje is certain speedily to find a husband. TheGeneral, Baron de Goumoens, Chamberlain of theEmperor, who is in command of the troops is, curiouslyenough, of Scotch descent, for his ancestors hailed fromeither Glasgow or Stirling. The Pasha whom we visited with the Austrian Commis- 193 o Travels and Politics sioner at the konak is a man of fifty-six, but looks older.He received us in full uniform outside his house, and tookus into his sitting-room, furnished with two book-cases, in one of which I noticed a French translation of LordPalmerstons private correspondence. The Pasha, whospeaks French, is rather nervous in ladies