. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. ne is in a pic-turesque, perhaps even a brilliant, costume. Themen often wear long chains, and carry handsomelychased weapons and long, elaborate pipes. Somehave sheepskins flung jauntily over their shoulders,and bright-red caps. The women wear golden orna-ments, embroidered jackets, and marvelous apronsalmost like prayer-rugs, handsome pins, pleatedhead-dresses, bright-colored handkerchiefs or tinycaps, coins hanging on chains over their thicklygrowing hair. The chief hotels, the villas, and the railway-sta-tion, where a row of victorias i
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. ne is in a pic-turesque, perhaps even a brilliant, costume. Themen often wear long chains, and carry handsomelychased weapons and long, elaborate pipes. Somehave sheepskins flung jauntily over their shoulders,and bright-red caps. The women wear golden orna-ments, embroidered jackets, and marvelous apronsalmost like prayer-rugs, handsome pins, pleatedhead-dresses, bright-colored handkerchiefs or tinycaps, coins hanging on chains over their thicklygrowing hair. The chief hotels, the villas, and the railway-sta-tion, where a row of victorias is drawn up,—for thisis no Zara, but a city which believes that it moveswith the times,—lie among roses, oleanders, singlerhododendrons, trees, and masses of luxuriant vege-tation outside Porta Pille. As soon as you havepassed beneath San Biagio and descended the hill,you are in a bright, medieval world, in the heart ofone of the most original and fascinating little citiesthat exists in Europe. 3^ THE RECTORS PALACE AND THE PUBLICSQUARE AT RAGUSA. PICTURESQUE DALMATIA On the left of the Stradone, the chief street andthe newest, between two and three hundred yearsold, at right angles to it, shadowed by tall and an-cient houses, tiny alleys, ending in steep flights ofsteps, lead up toward the mountain. On the flat toits right is a happy maze of alleys, clean, strange,old, yet never sad. A delicious cheerfulness reignsin Ragusa. From the dimness of venerable door-ways smiling faces look forth. They lean downfrom carved stone balconies. Gay voices chatter atthe foot of frowning walls, huge bastions, mightywatch-towers; before the statue of Roland, near theDogana which has a loggia and Gothic windows; bythe fine and massive Onofrio fountain, which forover four hundred and seventy years has given wa-ter to the inhabitants; among the doves by PortaPlace, which leads to the harbor. The wide, butintimate, Stradone toward noon and evening isthronged with cheerful and neatly dressed ci
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