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Title: Travels and politics in the Near East
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Miller, William, 1864-1945
Subjects: Eastern question (Balkan) Balkan Peninsula
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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so on to the railway at Bugojno.But the last route, although extremely beautiful, is lessused than the other three. For those who wish to com-bine a visit to Dalmatia with a tour in the occupiedterritory, Ragusa is undoubtedly the best starting-point.Prom the Ragusan harbour of Gravosa a tiny little steamertakes you over an azure sea sprinkled with islands, pastthe famous plane-trees of Cannosa and the old station ofthe Ragusan fleet at Mezzo, to the harbour of Stagno 131 Travels and Politics Grande, on the peninsula of Sabbioncello, once the seat ofa bishopric and a pirate stronghold from which the earlysovereigns of the Hercegovina used to ravage the Italiancoast opposite. A rickety omnibus crosses the isthmusin half an hour, and drops you at the harbour of StagnoPiccolo on the other side, a little town almost as ruinousas the fortifications which surround it. Here anothertiny steamer awaits the traveller, while a whole boatloadof men and women, in the picturesque native, dress, are
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A WHOLE UUATLOAD OF MEN ANU \\ OMEN.(From a Photo, by Miss Chadivick.) setting sail for their work on the mainland. The steamerstops at one or two places on the long peninsula, andthen goes straight across and enters the mouth of theNarenta Canal, Up the muddy waters it pants along,while weird-looking aborigines, descendants of those oldXarentans who struck terror into the hearts of the oldRoman legionaries, and were the worst pirates of thewhole coast, paddle their primitive coracles in the wash.We had heard much of the dangers of the foul air whichis said to arise from these swamps, but since the marshes 132 in the Near East have been drained and tlie sluggish Narenta forced intoa single channel, quinine is superfluous and malaria isless deadly, and claims fewer victims at the river towns ofFort Opus and Metkovic. The latter place, which is theterminus of the steamer, has grown considerably inimportance since the canal was made. It is here that theBosnian and Hercegovinian State rai

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