enlisting the sympathies of the Albanians, can command every inlet to
that brave little country. A "Schwab," as every German-speaking
foreigner is termed, is consequently viewed with no friendly eyes;
while the Russian is welcomed openly as a friend.

Russia, however, can never hope to buy the allegiance of the
Montenegrins; for while appreciating friendly assistance, the faintest
attempt to obtain undue influence of power would be sharply resented.

Montenegro will yield her absolute independence to none.




CHAPTER II

History from first conquest by the Romans, 300 B.C., down to
the present Prince--Fruits of the last campaign--Education--The
military system--Legal administration--Crime--Government--The educated
classes.


The district which corresponds most nearly to Montenegro of the
present day comes first into notice when the Romans attacked Queen
Teuta and drove her back beyond the modern Podgorica in the third
century B.C. From this time onwards Roman influence made
itself felt strongly in the Prævalitana, an outlying province of
Illyria, and the city of Dioclea--whose ruins still exist in the
neighbourhood of Podgorica, and which was to play such an important
part in the germ state of Crnagora, or the "Land of the Black