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corroborated at Pasman. The stock there had 

 become reduced to some seven or eight, and 

 some years ago the peasantry combined to destroy 

 them all. Why, I know not, unless perhaps they 

 were destructive to the grapes. 



The view from Mount Bokolj is grand. To 

 landward the coast-line from Zara to Zaravecchia 

 is backed by the arid Velebit range ; and a few 

 miles south of the latter I could distinctly see the 

 great Vrana Lake. To the westward lay other 

 islands : Lunga and then Incoronata — this last 

 almost uncultivated, and only inhabited at times. 

 On every side were dozens of small scoglie. 



I fixed my bearings towards camp and started 

 down the hill. Unfortunately, before I had gone 

 far I got among a network of hill-vineyards, 

 which formed a most exasperating obstacle. These 

 vineyards are made as follows : A piece of the 

 hill being selected, the owner proceeds to carry 

 all the stones thereon to the sides, where he 

 places them so as to form wide dikes from four 

 to eight feet high. Some idea of the nature of 

 the ground on these islets can be formed by the 

 reader when I say that these are often insufficient, 

 and it then becomes necessary to pile them up in 

 huge square cairns in order to clear the ground. 

 It may be readily imagined that a score or two 

 of such dikes form no mean impediment to rapid 

 progress, especially when one has a couple of dogs 



