THE ISLANDS OF SARDINIA AND CORSICA. 



Fever Cagliari Rough Weather Terranova Tortoli Lanusei We 

 start on a Hunt for Moufflons Camp Driving the G-ame Unruly 

 Natives The Rope Trick Return to Cagliari Earl of Mayo Game 

 Laws A Successful Chase Trout Fishing in the Flumendosa 

 Antiquities of Sardinia Salt Lake Fisheries Snipe Shooting Oristano 

 An Amateur Sculptor Tunny Fishery Wine Mullet Fishery 

 Corsica Shooting Sea Fishing. 



THE Island of Sardinia suffers from the stigma of a bad 

 name. In the time of the Eomans it was held to be 

 one of the unhealthiest of their colonies. Cicero writes 

 to his brother, who, for his sins, was located in the 

 north of the island: "Take care of your health; 

 although it is winter, remembering that it is Sardinia.' 7 

 It is the same now. The tourist who tells such of his 

 friends as know the tradition about Sardinia that he is 

 going thither will be advised to make his will before 

 he sets forth, and to prepare to be carried off by the 

 "intemperie" (as the fever is called by the Sards) 

 within a week or two after his arrival. 



But, in truth, it is only in summer and autumn that 

 the lowlands of the island can be called unhealthy, and 

 even then it is more salubrious than many parts of 

 Italy, and year by year with cultivation, drainage, and 

 the planting of eucalypti in the marshes the country is 

 improving. 



Cagliari, the capital in the south, is quite charming, 

 for its sea view across the gulf towards the mountains 

 of Pula, for the boldness of its rocky site, for its ancient 

 sepulchres in the neighbourhood, its museum of anti- 



