232 IN THE LAND OP THE BORA. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Mostae, being an impossible place of residence in 

 the summer, partly on account of the heat, and 

 partly on account of the pappadacci* we had now 

 to think of making plans for the ensuing season. 

 Our first idea was to return to Dalmatia, of which 

 we had left a good third unexplored, but the 

 better prospects of sport in the Herzegovinian 

 hills made me waver. At any rate, we would go 

 and look at them, if for no other reason than that 

 so few people had seen them. 



The Velez Range, though not really the highest 

 of Herzegovinian mountains, is in many ways the 

 most important chain in the country. It is only 

 nominally separated from Porim and the other 

 hills on the same bank of the Narenta to the 

 northward, and with them it may be said to mark 

 the limits of the ordinary tourist. So much the 

 worse for him, for all he sees is the bleak treeless 

 valley of the lower Narenta, whilst the magnificent 



A sort of small mosquito, most difficult to guard against, 

 and whose venomous bites leave a mark for months. It seems 

 to be quite a specialty of Mostar. 



