IN TllE LAND OF THE BORA. 27 



CHAPTER IV. 



Monday was the 13tli of August, and I went out 

 for a while with gun and dog — not without think- 

 ing of the grouse-shooters at home, but, unlike 

 them, I saw nothing. The heat was very great, 

 hut we found the balloon tent, with its lower edges 

 turned up a couple of feet, was always cool and 

 pleasant, except on the rare occasions when there 

 was no breeze. 



The next day we had our first experience of the 

 dreaded bora wind, which blew hard from noon till 

 sunset. In spite of our exposed situation, it did us 

 no harm, and, with proper attention, it is very 

 difficult for the wind to do any to Captain Houston- 

 Stewart's patent tents, as, besides being bolted 

 down in the centre, they expose so little surface to 

 the wind. 



A word as to the topography of our first island. 

 Pasman runs, roughly speaking, truly from north- 

 west to south-east, and is twelve and a half miles 

 long by one and a half wide at its widest part, near 

 Pasman village. It is only separated from the 

 next island to the north, Uglian, by a tiny strait, 

 and the two islands together form the western 



