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explanation was nonsense, but had not yet hit upon anything better for ourselves. In a great part of my two later journeys I had the companionship of Mr. Arthur Evans, my friend of 1877, my son-in-law of 1881. How much I owe to his knowledge of South-Slavonic matters, words would fail me to tell. I had seen Dalmatia for the first time, and I had begun to write about it, before I knew him and, I believe, before he had published anything; otherwise I should almost feel myself an intruder in a province which he has made his own. One out of many points I may specially mention. It was Mr. Evans who found and explained the two missing capitals from the palace at Ragusa, which are at once so remarkable in themselves and which throw so much light on the history of the building.

      The illustrations to my former volume met with some severe criticism. But I am bound to say that of that severe criticism I agreed to every word. Only I thought that the critics would perhaps have been less severe if they had seen my original drawings themselves. The illustrations to the present volume have been made by a new process, partly, as before, from my own sketches, but partly also from photographs. I trust that they will be found less unsatisfactory than those that went before them.

      As there are in these papers a good many historical references, some of them to rather out-of-the-way matters, but matters which could not always be explained at length in the text, I have drawn up a chronological table of the chief events in the history of the lands and cities of which I have had to speak.

      I need hardly say that this volume, though I hope it may be useful to travellers on the spot, is not strictly a guide-book. But a good guide-book to Istria and Dalmatia is much needed. I am not joking when I say that the best guide to those parts is still the account written by the Emperor Constantino Porphyrogenitus more than nine hundred years back. But it is surely high time that there should be another. The attempts made in one or two of Murray's Handbooks are very poor. Sir Gardner Wilkinson's "Dalmatia and Montenegro," published more than thirty years ago, is an admirable book, and one to which I owe a very deep debt of gratitude. It first taught me what there was to see in the East-Hadriatic lands. But it is over-big for a guide-book. Mr. Neale's book contains some information, and, even in its ecclesiastical grotesqueness, it is sometimes instructive as well as amusing. But we can hardly take as our guide one who leaves out the Ragusan palace and who, when at Spalato, does not think of Diocletian. It would be in itself well if Gsel-fels, the prince of guide-book-makers, would do for Dalmatia as he has done for Sicily; but one would rather see it done in our own tongue.

      Somerleaze, Wells,

       September 20th, 1881.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

       Table of Contents

	B.C.
Foundation of Korkyra	c. 734
Foundation of Epidamnos	c. 627
War between Corinth and Korkyra about Epidamnos	435
Colonization of Pharos and Issa	385
Korkyra held by Agathoklês	300
Korkyra held by Pyrrhos	287
First Roman war with Illyria, time of Queen Teuta and Demetrios of Pharos	229
Korkyra, Epidamnos, and Apollonia become allies of Rome	229
Second Illyrian War	219
Foundation of Aquileia	181
First Roman Conquest of Illyria	168
First mention of Tragyrion (Traü)	158
First Dalmatian War	156
Salona the head of Dalmatia	117
Roman Conquest of Istria	107
Foundation of Forum Julii	c. 45
Colony of Tergeste fortified by Augustus	32
Foundation of Pietas Julia	c. 30
	A.D.
Final conquest of Dalmatia	6
Martyrdom of Saint Caius	296?
Diocletian retires to Salona	305
Crispus put to death at Pola	326
First church of Aquileia built by Fortunatian	c. 347
Gallus put to death at Pola	354
Aquileia destroyed by Attila	452
Dalmatia under Marcellian	454–468
Dalmatia under Odoacer	c. 480
Dalmatia under Theodoric	488
The Emperor Glycerius Bishop of Salona	474
Nepos killed near Salona	480
Salona recovered to the Empire	535
Building of the church of Parenzo	535–543
Belisarius sails from Salona	544
Narses sails from Salona	552
Schism in the church of Aquileia	557
Beginning of the Patriarchate of Grado	606
Lombard conquest of Italy begins	568
Slavonic settlements under Heraclius	c. 620
Salona destroyed by the Avars	639
Inland Dalmatia under Charles the Great; the coast cities left to the Eastern Empire	806
The church of Pola built by Bishop Handegis	857
Cattaro taken by the Saracens	867
Saracen siege of Ragusa	867
First Venetian conquest of Dalmatia	997
Poppo Patriarch of Aquileia; rebuilding of the church	1019–1042
First authentic mention of Gorizia	1051
Croatian kingdom of Dalmatia	1062
Foundation of Saint Nicolas at Traü	1064
Corfu conquered by Robert Wiscard	1081
Corfu recovered by the Empire	1085
Exploits of the English exiles at Durazzo	1086
Magyar kingdom of Dalmatia	1102
The tower of Saint Mary's at Zara built by Coloman of Hungary	1105
Beginning of the Counts of Gorizia	1120
Corfu held by Roger of Sicily	1147–1150
Dalmatia restored to the Eastern Empire	1171
Corfu conquered by William the Good	1186
Corfu, Durazzo, etc., held by Margarito as a kingdom dependent on Sicily	1186
Richard the First at Ragusa	1192
Taking of Zara by the Crusaders	1202
Venetian Counts at Ragusa	1204
Corfu and Durazzo first occupied by Venice	1206
Building of Traü cathedral	1215–1321
Corfu and Durazzo recovered by Michael of Epeiros	1216
Durazzo recovered by the Empire	1259
Corfu and Durazzo ceded to Manfred	1268
Consecration of Saint Anastasia at Zara	1285
Durazzo under Servia	1322
Durazzo restored to the Kings of Naples	1322
Pola submits to Venice	1331
Neapolitan duchy of Durazzo	1333–1360
Treviso first occupied by Venice	1338
Building of the Archbishop's castle at Salona	1347
Treviso besieged by Lewis of Hungary	1356
Dalmatia ceded to Lewis of Hungary	1358
Durazzo the capital of an Albanian kingdom	1358–1392
Complete independence of Ragusa	1359
Markquard, Patriarch of Aquileia; recasting of the church	1365–1381
Gradual advance of Venice in Dalmatia	1378–1444
Treviso ceded to Leopold of Austria	1381
Trieste commends itself to Austria	1381
Final acquisition of Corfu by Venice	1386
Venetian occupation of Argos	1388
Treviso restored to Venice	1388
Second Venetian acquisition of Durazzo	1392
Building of the palace at Ragusa	1388–1435
Butrinto and Parga commend themselves to Venice	1407
Consecration of Saint Chrysogonos at Zara	1407
Sebenico annexed by Venice	1412
Building of the cathedral at Sebenico	1415–1555
Cattaro becomes Venetian	1419
Traü annexed by Venice	1420
Curzola finally submits to Venice	1420
Dominions of the Patriarch of Aquileia annexed by Venice	1420
Udine annexed by Venice	1420
Lesina occupied by Venice	1424
The city of Aquileia left to the Patriarchs	1451
Argos ceded by Venice	1463
Fluctuations between Venice and the Turk in Dalmatia	1465–1718
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