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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



Chioggia, and would in all probability be obliged 

 to go from that place to Venice, in order to repair 

 in the arsenal of that city the great damage she 

 had sustained, which was estimated at twenty thou- 

 sand francs. The bowsprit was soon put up, and 

 on the seventh day the Austria was again ready to 

 sail. The embassy, therefore, resolved to proceed 

 to Gibraltar alone, and there to wait both the 

 Augusta frigate and the royal Portuguese squadron, 

 as well as further instructions from the imperial 

 court of Vienna. 



On the 21 st of April, at six o^clock in the 

 morning, we weighed anchor, and left the harbour 

 of Pola with a faint east-north-east wind. By the 

 time it was broad daylight we were in the open 

 sea. The horizon was covered with thin white 

 clouds, but the sky in the zenith was of the purest 

 azure, and we indulged in the most pleasing hopes 

 as a faint but favourable wind conveyed us to the 

 entrance of the Golfo di Quarnero. About ten 

 o'clock in the morning we had the south east point 

 of Istria before us, about ten leagues distant. 

 We took a last look of the Monte Maggiore, the 

 highest mountain in the peninsula, the summit of 

 which had been covered with snow on the day of 

 the storm, and was not yet free from it. When we 

 had doubled this southermost promontory, the high 

 mountains behind Fiume rose in the distant back 

 ground to the north, and before us II Monte 

 d'Osero, a steep barren limestone chain, which 



