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 CAN-ALESI WOMEN IN NATIONAL DRESS 



ubio took two days to cover the distance, 

 stopping at many ports on the islands 

 that He off this part of the coast. The 

 most interesting of these islands are Le- 

 sina, Lissa, and Curzola. Lissa has 

 given its name to two famous naval bat- 

 tles — one between the English and the 

 French in 1811, and one between the 

 Atistrians and the Italians in 1866. The 

 two harbors of the island, Lissa and 

 Comisa, are exceedingly beautiful. The 



chief source of income in this part of Dal- 

 matia is from the sea, and the costumes 

 of the fishermen are less picturesque than 

 those of the islanders Avho come to the 

 coast towns on the mainland. In archi- 

 tectural beauty Curzola is particularly 

 striking ; it is a diminutive walled city on 

 a point of land which juts out from the 

 large island of the same name into the 

 channel which separates it from the 

 mainland. Opposite, the mountains rise 



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