10 IN THE LAND OF THE BOEA. 



CHAPTER II. 



Dalmatia can be conveniently reached from Eng- 

 land by various routes. The quickest, which was 

 also the one we adopted, is that by the Saint 

 Gothard, Milan, and Ancona, from which last place 

 there is a regular weekly service of steamers to Zara. 

 This route can, of course, be varied in a number of 

 ways, e.g. by taking the Paris and Mont Cenis line 

 to Milan. The cheapest route is that by Harwich, 

 Antwerp, Luxemburg, Basle, and Innsbruck to 

 Trieste or Pola. In this case the railway journey 

 is also about forty-eight hours, but the sea-voyages 

 at both ends are considerably longer. In the latter 

 case the steamers call at several ports en route, 

 unless one takes what the Lloyd people call their 

 " Dalmatian " line. These boats only call at one 

 place, Pola, between Trieste and Zara. If, how- 

 ever, time is no object, the others will be pre- 

 ferred, as enabling one to see a little of Istria, 

 which is not uninteresting. In both the above 

 cases I assume a start to be made from Zara, 

 which, with the exception of some islands, is the 

 extreme northerly point of the province. 



