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Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on foot during the insurrection, August and September 1875

Note 310 — Chapter VIII · MOSTAR AND THE VALE OF NARENTA.

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Sir Gardner Wilkinson, who made an excursion to Mostar during his Dalmatian travels, met with similar adventures. ‘Some,’ says he, ‘of the Mostar women go without their mask and pull the cloth feregi over their heads, holding it tight to their faces, and peeping out of a corner with one eye, who, when pretty, frequently contrive to remove it “accidentally on purpose.”... I am bound to say that they were often very pretty, and with very delicate complexions.’

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