WAR CORRESPONDENCE AT RAGUSA The splendid victory of Muratovizza led to the recall of our old enemy Shefket Pasha, who was sent to Bulgaria and replaced in the Herzegovina by a more competent and humane man, an old friend of Cretan days, Raouf Pasha, one of the most competent and liberal Circassian officers in the service of the Sultan.

Of the operations which followed I have no direct cognizance, and I am not writing the history of the war, except as it mingles with my own experiences.
The lull that followed the change of command left me time to study Montenegro and its people, and I made many friends.

The battle at Muratovizza had developed a quarrel between Socica, who commanded there with a most distinguished ability, and old Peko Pavlovich, who had refused his coperation in the battle, to the great diminution of the consequences of the victory.

Peko had now come to follow the suggestions of the Russian consulate at Ragusa, from which his fortunate rival would accept no indications.

The Russian Slavonic committees had begun to work, and their contributions and influence, more than the direct action of their government, gradually brought the whole movement under Russian influence.