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riing net-yarn, or in weaving nets, really belonged to the fairer 
half of creation, so little did there appear, in their manners, 
either modesty or cleanliness, those distinguishing traits of the 
female character. The wildly disordered state of their hair, 
which hung loose and uncombed upon their backs and shoulders, 
and wherein they mutually and amicably hunted for its noisome 
inhabitants, accompanying this action with the loudest and most 
vulgar songs, made them look like savages, and produced such 
disgust and abhorrence in us, that we presently quitted Rovigno 
and took a walk inland to the distance of about half a stund, be- 
tween very flourishing olive plantations. When we returned 
back, we entered a coffee-house, and there had a proof of the 
poverty and meanness of the inhabitants. We had scarcely 
seated ourselves at a table upon the grass before the door, and 
there had coffee brought to us, when we were surrounded by a 
crowd of children, covered with rags, and displaying a complete 
example of every corporal want. They solicited us to give them 
something, by showing off all kinds of tricks ; and their impu- 
dence went so far as even to steal the fruit from our table. We 
soon hastened from this wretched city, where we had beheld 
such a picture of squalid poverty and of the lowest impudence ; 
and, embarking at seven o’clock, we sailed out of the harbour. 
“ Hundsberg , near Trieste, April 20. — We proceeded very 
slowly on our voyage yesterday evening, on account of the con- 
tinual calm ; and, when we awoke this morning early, we had 
Citta-nuova in sight. Thence sailing past Usnago, we doubled, 
at noon, the Punta del Salvora, where we caught a good wind, 
which, in less than an hour, drove us into the neighbourhood of 
Trieste. J ust then, some tempestuous clouds arose in the ho- 
rizon ; the wind quickly veered about, and became so unfavour- 
able, that we spent as much time in running into the harbour of 
Trieste, as it had taken us to reach it from the Punta. We had 
scarcely landed, when the storm discharged itself in heavy rain, 
and we were thankful to be on terra firma, and in our own room. 
Every thing is now here in the finest bloom, and the verdant 
soil promises a rich produce of plants. 
66 Hundsberg , April 22. — It was requisite for us to dry yester- 
day the plants which we had collected in our journey to Istria, 
among which Anemone hortensis , Hesperis verna, Pistacia Len- 
