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Project Gutenberg albanianarrative00knigrichis the favourite small arm of the Montenegrins, who invariably scrape off the bluing when they purchase one of these weapons, as they consider it looks dirty, and prefer the bare steel. Their guns were the Austrian breech-loading rifles of the old pattern ; very fair weapons, but not to be compared to the Martini-Henrys which are so common in Albania. These fine men — their plaids blowing to and fro with the fresh highland breeze, drawn up here on the savage mountain side, while the strains of the military band at Cattaro rose up from the abyss beneath — looked very imposing. At Neigoussa, a miserablejittle village, there is 64 Albania. a Khan. Here we halted, gave our horses a feed, and sitting on the stone bench outside, lunched off goat's milk, cheese,