110 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 



performance. Some distraction we had, in the 

 shape of a gang of Bosnian gypsies, who gave an 

 open-air concert on the marina, and, though their 

 voices were not musical, their violin quartets were 

 by no means despicable. They all wore fez or 

 turban, and four at least of them, including two 

 women, would not have attracted the least notice, 

 either in dress or features, in an Indian bazaar. 

 This type of Zingari has disappeared from England 

 for ever, and I fancy the old prejudice against 

 intermarriage with the gorgio must have waned to 

 bring about this result. 



We left Trappano some two hours after time, 

 but of course a steamer of this class can easily be 

 driven when necessary, and the mouth of the 

 Narenta Eiver soon came in view. To show, how- 

 ever, how unsuitable a craft of the Trieste class is 

 for such work, I may remark that a small steamer 

 of the ordinary Dalmatian coasting type, which 

 might almost have passed for our steam-pinnace, 

 having called at a couple of ports on the way, 

 came into Trappano harbour as we went out, and 

 yet was only some five minutes after the Lloyd 

 boat in leaving Fort Opus. This advantage she 

 simply gained by being able to run full speed into 

 these little harbours and tie up in two minutes. 



The three principal rivers of Dalmatia differ 

 greatly in the characteristics of their mouths. 

 Eor while the Krka wanders out through a lough 



