46 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 



day, or, in other words, nearly three times a day's 

 wage ; so we promptly paid him off, and the priest 

 procured us an efficient substitute. 



The inhabitants of Morter cultivate a small part 

 of the long island of Incoronata before referred to, 

 and utilize the rest of it as pasturage, keeping over 

 five thousand sheep there. This is the outermost 

 island of any importance of the Archipelago, and 

 has no fixed population, the Morter people going 

 out for such sojourn as their work necessitates. 



The only difference between the inhabitants of 

 these various islands as regards costume is in the 

 men's caps. For instance, at Pasman they were 

 all red, with a decided point in the centre ; at 

 PakoStane the red was half covered with black 

 embroidery ; whereas here at Morter the dandies 

 only wear a perfectly flat piece of scarlet cloth, 

 smaller even than a German student's cap — say 

 three inches in diameter — and secured by an elastic 

 at the back of the head. A more useless headdress 

 for the sun it would be hard to conceive, but I 

 noticed that at sea they sometimes condescended 

 to big straw hats. 



Morter is slowly but surely sinking beneath 

 the Adriatic. Near our camp there were walls to 

 be seen below the sea in calm weather, and the 

 very name of the spot, Gradina (the ancient dwell- 

 ing-place), bears out the fact. Near Morter 

 village are still visible Roman graves two fathoms 



