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He shook his head, saying "Ima, ima." We bought several pounds, arranged with him to guide us later to the carriage road, and hurried into the town to buy provisions. There we met Colonel Stajitch. "Will you take my boy?" "Delighted. Are his papers in order?" The mayor hereupon turned up, and the colonel's face grew longer as they conversed.
There was a lot of grumbling coming from one corner, and after a while a light was struck. "Good lord," said somebody, "my pillow's crawling!" Bugs were cascading down the walls. Stajitch jumped to his feet, and began stamping hard. "Rivers of them," he yelled. Cutting and Whatmough were groaning about the heat, so we opened the door.
The mayor called in two more men: they considered the pass once more. "You may have the carriages two days more," he decided at last. "Go to Tutigne. As far as that the carriages will travel. There are many horses there, and you can get pack ponies." Coming out we ran into Colonel Stajitch of Valievo. The colonel is a Serbian gentleman, fine figure, beautiful face, and white hair and moustaches.
Immediately all the dogs of the village, half wolves, hurled themselves at the lighted space. Stajitch slammed it just in time; had they burst in, lying down as we were, we should have been unable to protect ourselves. A dark face peered in between the baking oven and the wall, a swarthy Albanian face. It looked at us and then silently withdrew.
We searched two cafés meeting again with our old acquaintance the schoolmaster from Nish plunged into all sorts of odd corners, and at last met Colonel Stajitch in a restaurant. He greeted us. "I have a great favour to ask," he said diffidently. "If I might I should like to give to you a little appendix. It is my son. He is seventeen, but is very big for his age.
The bridge had been washed away, but the inhabitants had made a boat like a sort of huge wooden shoe which they dragged to and fro with ropes. We clambered in and were hauled over. Our baggage had not yet arrived, so Jan and Stajitch ordered lunch for the others and went down to see about it. Just as they were landed on the opposite bank the rope broke.
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