IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 105 



firm in our resolution to leave the Poglizza, and 

 accordingly on the Gth of October, exactly a 

 fortnight to the hour after our arrival at Almissa, 

 we once more embarked under the now familiar 

 pennant of the Austrian Lloyd Company. 



The steamship which conveyed us on this 

 occasion, the Trieste, deserves, I think, more than 

 a passing notice. She is the crack ship of the 

 Austrian Lloyd's Dalmatian Line, and it may be 

 said that she is a bit above her work. When we 

 had sufficiently digested the carved walnut, silk 

 tapestry, and velvet pile of her saloon, we went on 

 a round of inspection, and were perfectly amazed 

 that a ship of this class should be delegated to 

 such work. That a ship making up some forty 

 first-class berths should ever be necessary on a 

 route where the usual passengers consist of two 

 bagmen and a priest was a little hard to believe. 

 The Dalmatian Diet has laid before the Imperial 

 Government a scheme for the erection of first-class 

 hotels and hydropathic establishments all over 

 Dalmatia.* When (and I hope it will be a long 



* Since these lines Lave been written, a company Las been 

 brougbt out for the purpose of building and working good 

 hotels at Cattaro and Kagusa. Certainly good hotels are not 

 to be found in Dalmatia, but if the country is going to be 

 brought " up to date " in this sort of way, it will at onco lose the 

 charm it possesses. Roman ruins at Salona, relics of a mediaeval 

 republic at Kagusa, and a couple of waterfalls are but poor 

 cards to play against what other countries (e.g. Italy) far inoro 



