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to shoot the next day. When we had put up our 

 camp-beds in the hold, on the shingle which served 

 as ballast, a little breeze sprung up, and we arrived 

 at our destination soon after daylight. 



There is no landing-place of any kind at Joura, 

 as far as I saw. The place where we disembarked 

 was all steep rocks, on which we had to jump, watch- 

 ing our opportunity. The landing of baggage is a 

 great difficulty. 



The following description of Joura, from the pen 

 of Professor Knotek, who collected there for the 

 Bosnian Museum, and shot a buck, doe, and kid, 

 appeared in 1896 in the Oesterreichische Forst und 

 Jagd-Zeitung : — 



"Joura, the most northerly of the Sporades with 

 the exception of the small, flat, volcanic islet of 

 Psathoura, is roughly of the shape of an isosceles 

 triangle, whose height is thrice the length of the 

 base.^ This latter, with a small bay in it, is to the 

 south. It is of limestone formation. The southern 

 and western, which are also the most accessible, sides 

 run down in a steep slope, cut up by valleys of vary- 

 ing size, to the sea, whereas a sheer fall of from three 

 to four hundred metres runs along the whole east 

 coast. Fearful precipices, and cliffs one to two hun- 

 dred metres high, descending in terraces to the sea, 

 countless ravines and clefts, give the whole a wildly 

 romantic appearance. Two parallel ridges, dividing 

 in the centre of the island, shut in a narrow' valley 

 running in a north-westerly direction, whilst the main 

 ridge and the more northerly of the above-mentioned 



^ I compared it to the left hand, palm upwards, the bay (our landing- 

 place) being between thumb and forefinger, and several promontories to 

 the westward the fingers. 



