and they run when they think the enemy is after them. The
 
annoyance and damage that they may have occasioned the enemy
 
has been, if my description is correct, the result of persis-
 
tence rather than any uncanny cunning.
 
        In addition to the elements in the Jugoslav psychological make-up so far mentioned, they
 
have at least two other predominant characteristics: They are great enthusiasts, unsetfcon-
 
scious, .exuberant and yet capable of protracted enthusiasm which
 
evinces itself as the fierce loyalty which they have histori-
 
cally shown to many causes. They are also great and invincible
 
talkers, who will argue 'til Doomsday about anything and every-
 
thing. I was never quite able to make up my mind in talking to dozens of them whether this
 
was the symbol of real native intellectual curiosity or simply a manifestation of the
 
psychological fact that they would rather, talk than eat.
 
       I realize that it is always dangerous to generalize about a large number of people, as I have
 
above, but enough of them seemed to have the qualities I have described to make them
 
more or less common denominators.
 
     There are besides perceptible regional characteristics
 
which seem to some extent to be substantiated by their recorded
 
behavior. Dalmatians seem to be a mercantile people, distiguished
 
for seafaring, trading, pen-pushing and office work,
 
and rather soft as soldiers. The Eighth army corps, made up
 
mostly of Dalmatians, is looked doom upon by the rest of the