Sete A THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER, 1930 CONTENTS TWENTY-FOUR PAGES OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN FULL COLOR Jugoslavia—Ten Years After With 45 Ilustrations MELVILLE CHATER Rustic Life in Jugoslavia 25 Natural-Color Photographs HANS HILDENBRAND and WILHELM TOBIEN The Unexplored Philippines from the Air With 39 Tlwatrations GEORGE W. GODDARD The Color Camera's First Aerial Success ‘With 9 Natural-Cotor Photographs MELVILLE BELL GROSVENOR. 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LVI, No. 3 WASHINGTON Serremper, 1930 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE JUGOSLAVIA—TE yey Ae Seer ea EE < YEARS AFTER By Mette Caarer “Aerie ep Tux Suaapn or Sem Wace” eh QUARTET of sus tingered over A ‘onr breakfast coffee onan Italian ate square at Dubrovnik { Ragusa), regarding the Adriatie’s sweep of pastel Die and comparing Armistice micmuries of ten years before. We retnvisured a rush of weeks that were enlivened hy hysterical parades: Ghampagne nights, looming revolistions, wholessle kissing, and tumors of old States dissolving, of new States being born. Soon map-makers at the “peace show” were wrestling with the promuncia- tion of such piace names.as Preemy steulthily inquiring of their secretaries if Schmollaitehiitte were mountuins or a iver. Anil se it was small shame thata far-off ptospective tourist, upon first hearing af Jugoslavia, had remarked, “Slavia seins as if it's in Russia, but where is Juy And it was not until the battle dust of the ‘peace conference hid! subsided and official amaps had been published that the anin- formed discovered that the Balkan Slivs ‘Tad constituted themselves 45-0 new State, whose name meant simply “Southern It was a near-by. wall placard bearing the official letters “S. H. that had served to remind ts breakfasters that we were in the Kingdom of Srha, Hrvata, Slovenaca. (7, Croats, and Slo venies) during its decennial year. From Suiak we had sted along its archipel- ago-fringed shores—a §8o-mile vista. of Roman remains, Gothic cathedrals, Tal Dados, Hatticar ae jatiate campanili sew against the Dinaric Alps’ sea-peralleling ridges. And now we Were to. penetrate their barrier for a glimpse of the less-kmawn interior, Breakiast over, we sought out Lau- rence, our chauticur, Lanrenee, though fintraveled cutside of America, was not only a good chauffeur but an excellent cook—something to be considered when motoring through qut-of-the-way regions, We found him deep in a langonge jam with the hotel porter. Laurence was gesticulating his need of “ he porter was telling him where hie could buy “essence, preiiére qualité.” and Laurence kept repeating scornfull Zssence? Man, [don’t want no perfum. ery, What T want is just plait nd I don't think he believed essence’ could possibly be anything but a drug- sture product until he saw the American trademark on the gasoline container. Dubrovnik sank below ts as we #ig- vayged up the mountains, Seen from their crests, the old walled town appeared ike wt toy fortress, while the archipelago resembled a blue cloth erverseattered with mauve pincushions. Abrupt transition! For ahead of us stretched Hereegovina’s Karst region, an cinimaginably wild smd late scene. ‘The scaward flanks of the Jge were clothed in semitropical hxuri- ance, while on their landwartl side fay a. node, sterile expanse of rock- heaped, mouutaineringed table-land. For six hours we traversed that region of the damned. ‘There was’ searcely a