Added: Nov 18, 2008

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Project Gutenberg albanianarrative00knigrich which is situated at the further extremity of the town. The Museum is merely a small, rough- plastered room, but it contains what is well worthy of visit — a collection of trophies taken from the Turk in those wars which have raged fiercely and cruelly between the two races for so many hundreds of years. Here w T ere the spoils of a thousand battles. Guns of very antique date — curious, ricketty weapons of Middle Age Europe. 88 Albania. Here the long Albanian gun, with silver-inlaid barrel, and small narrow stock of beautifully carved steel ; old muskets with English Tower marks ; Martini-Henry and "Winchester rifles hung on the walls, bringing one down to more recent cam- paigns. Sabres, blood-stained

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