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There is, however, a third way of going out, 

 and one to rny mind infinitely preferable to either 

 of the above, when neither time nor money is an 

 object. This is to take the weekly Peninsular and 

 Oriental steamers to Brindisi, and thus dispense 

 with the tiresome railway journey, with its four 

 or five custom-house formalities. Brindisi is in 

 regular steamer communication with Corfu — in 

 itself well worth a visit — and thence the steamers, 

 touching at one or two Albanian ports, land the 

 traveller at Cattaro, to all intents and purposes 

 the most southerly point of Dalmatia. Another 

 great advantage of this route is that one can take 

 all one's camp equipment with one, whereas, if one 

 goes by land, it must be shipped on to Ancona or 

 Trieste a month in advance. This southern ap- 

 proach is especially suitable to those who go to 

 Dalmatia early in the year, enabling them, as it 

 does, to go north as the season gets hotter. It is 

 almost superfluous to add that Dalmatia is not a 

 suitable climate for camp-life before March, even 

 in the south. As an alternative, the Indian mail 

 route can be taken to Brindisi by those who wish 

 to go in spring. This port is also in regular 

 steamer communication with Eagusa, but there 

 does not seem to be any object in beginning in the 

 middle of the country in this way. 



I have said that we selected the quickest route. 

 Indeed, we were obliged to do so, as our start had 



