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fact that the tow-man generally takes off his 

 trousers. We are not very particular about our 

 shirts in Dalmatia, anyway, and they generally 

 bear the traces of the vintage well into winter. 

 In fact, I greatly doubt if some of them ever see 

 the washtub at all. The Narenta Morlaks are 

 about as dirty as any Dalmatians, which is saying 

 a good deal. They are also in many ways the 

 representative descendants of the old Narentine 

 pirates. The townspeople, on the other hand, are 

 very civil and obliging, but the town ! But that 

 I should be called Eabelaisian, I could give details 

 as to the sanitation (or rather as to its total 

 absence) which, referring to Austria, to a town of 

 a thousand inhabitants, and to the end of the 

 nineteenth century, would appear absolutely in- 

 credible. 



