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town of the island, and we all embarked about 

 ten. 



Having rounded the point, we sailed past the 

 picturesque village of Bettina. (N.B. — This place 

 is much best seen from a distance.) Morter Island 

 presents no features of interest, being, as I have 

 said, almost entirely covered with vines and olive- 

 trees. At Stretto the channel narrows to a few 

 yards, and is spanned by a bridge, one part of 

 which can be open by manual labour. Through 

 this we passed, and then landed to disembark our 



fellow-travellers and to enable E to make some 



necessary purchases. 



Stretto is a little place of some pretensions, 

 going even so far as to boast a club, which we were 

 shown with pride. Here we ascertained that there 

 was a steamer back about three from Previcio, a 

 scoglia some miles on, and Don Plancic and his 

 curate consented to accompany us thus far and 

 pay a visit to some friends at the convent there, 

 thus killing two birds with one stone. We gave 

 them a scratch lunch on board, and a very cheery 

 little party we were that lovely summer day. 

 From Stretto our boatmen continued to hug the 

 mainland shore. To seaward, as usual, were heaps 

 of islets, the most important being Kapri and Zuri. 

 We passed within a biscuit-throw of the village of 

 Tre Bocconi. Its situation on an islet connected 

 by a stone bridge with the mainland is picturesque, 



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