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pastry and almond sweets. The road
then runs diagonally across valley.
from 10 to Is miles wide, which ex-
tends down to Cagliarl, at the south
eastern end of the island.
Cagliari is the principal port of Sar
DINA, and is often visited for few
hours by tourists taking the weekly
steamer from Genoa to Livorno to
Tunis. The bay of Cagliari Is most
impressive. On the right and left as
you enter are hills, with mountains
in the distance, while rising up from
the lowlands directly opposite the en-
trance is the city, on a rocky hill 400
feet high. The top of this hill is en-
circled by massive wall, built by the
Pisans in the Thirteenth century. At
two of it's angles rise the towers Of the
tower of the Eagle, which completed
the triangle, only the base remains.
In the center of these Notifications
is the old town and the cathedral On
the slopes of the hill outside the walls
is built the modern city.
Ca9iiart ana llS Gays.
Surrounding Cagliari are shallow
bays, which extend inland for many
miles, and are of interest because of
the government salt recoveries, where
huge mounds of salt, 20 to 40 feet
high, can be seen on the flats. In the
spring fiocks of fiamingoes and other
birds congregate on these lowlands
and add to the beauty of the. scenery.
The land around the lagoons is espe-
cially fertile and well cultivated with
truck gardens and vineyards, from
which a very large quantity of wine
Is made.
Cagliari, the largest city on the is
land and the capital of the southern
province, has about $1,000 inhabitants.
The entire population of the island is
estimated at 10000, a density Of
population of IS per square mile; this
Is much lower figure than in any
other part of Italy.
Throughout Sardinia prehistoric
monuments are prominent in the shape
Of truncated cones about 80 feet in
diameter at the base and built of
large rough blocks of stone about 2
feet high and of varying lengths.
These towers are the "nuraghi' be-
longing to the Bronze age and show
that the island must have been well
populated in the centuries antedating
the Christian era. The entrance to the
''nuraghi" usually faced the south and
go fxhf oiroI1lar With
in, as did also a door opening to
spiral staircase built in the walls and
leading to a chamber above the ground
floor. Few of the ''nuraghi" have the
roofing preserved entirely, so that we
no longer see them In their full height
or original cone shape Some have
two or three chambers on the ground
floor with inches in the walls, prob
ably for household gods. These tow
ers were undoubtedly fortified habita-
tions.
To get an insight into the life of the
inhabitants of this isolated island, one
should visit it's villages. 1t is in the
entire eastern half, with its noun
famous valleys and villages, where
the real Sards live. Here one Will
find them good looking and in good
health, generous, hospitable, honor
able, and quite poor. Politeness is
carried almost to an extreme. Often
as one rides through small village
the women, children, and old men sit
ting at the doorsteps rise and wish
you "buon viaggio"; or If it hap
pens to be noon, some may wish you
"buon appetite" Even the young
boys are taught to take their hats off
when strangers pass by; and If one is
in an automobile and happens to stop
to get out his camera, crowd of
youngsters seem TO spring up around
the car, all anxious to be In the pic
ture. To refuse cup of coffee or
liqueur, when visiting the house of an
inhabitant of village is an act OF
great discourtesy, and even the poor
est have some beverage to offer.