The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-01-03

slavia) has made a clean sweep OF
former Austro-H Hungarian place names
in favor of their Slav equivalents.
Like the out-of-luck American tourist
who wouldn't stop off at "Praha" be-
cause he wanted to get on to Prague,
the traveller today often needs bilin-
quail key to ascertain where he is.
Here is list Of some Jugoslav place
names, with their prewar equivalents
bracketed: Lake Bled (Veldeser See).
Lake Bohinj (Wocheiner See), Ia
greb (Agraml, Zadar CARA, Sibenik
(Sebenico), Trogir (Trau), Solin
(Salona), Split (Spalato), Cruz (Gra-
vosa), Dubrovnik (RagusD, Rotor
(Cattaro).
AS neither railroad nor motor trail
spans the Jugoslav coast, one had best
take the oldest and most appropriate
of routes, the sea lane, to rediscover
those shores whose maritime fame
antedated England's by centuries.
From among luxurious liners, more
modest steamers, and fleets of sailing
craft, one may choose ones travelling
style along what is one of the best
served littorals in south European
waters.
AS Susak falls astern, Italy disap-
pears behind islands. With an archi-
pelago barring the open sea and with
the Velebit's barren heights rising be-
hind the narrow coast, it seems as if
one is navigating a succession of blue,
flawlessly calm lagOons.
1t is almost matter of saying good
by to Europe! 1t is small wonder
that, with mountains barring the east
and an archipelago barring the west,
Dalmatia has always been a debatable
land of halfway house, where racially
speaking, Europe and Asia meet.
Certainly, the more one sees of Dali
malta, the more one feels himself to
be, while not exactly out of Europe,
yet somehow among the fringes of the
Orient.
You recall that this "debatable land'
was once disputed by Rome's eastern
and western empires; that Islams
armies were here confronted by Chris
tianity's outposts that here vas the
meeting ground of Latin and Slav;
rnat today DaImatia is still the bor-
derland of the Catholic and the Greek
Orthodox faiths.
Along the IIIyrian Coast.
Now and then your boat touches
port in some deep-set bay with its
hill-perched townlet-often an almost
stretches clump of vine-clad houses
which had dug it's heels into the Vele-
bit and held on while as yet Venice
was unheard of. Yet the specter of
the lagoon republic, medieval Dali
matia's protestress, still haunts every
nook and corner of the Jugoslav coast
Small steamers wind through the
narrow lagoonlike waters, known
along the coast as Canals" which
were once ruled by those petty poten-
tates for whom, Croatian tradition as
serts, mourning weeds have become
perpetuated as national costume.
AS one sails along, now the Velebit
range, it's barren, slate-gray TANKS
queerly diagramed with walled karst
holes, thrusts menacingly forward,
barring Croatia from the Adriatic.
Occasionally there appear V-shaped
valleys where some tiny, stucco port
nestles among a luxuriance of trees,
hedged gardens. and terraced vine
yards. Such are the Velebit's always
amazing GASES, created by subter-
ranean streams.
A wild strip, this, of the ancient
Illyrian coast. Wild, too, were the
first Illyrians, a mixture of pre-
Homeric Greeks and those wandering
Asians, the Liburni, after whom Rome
called the country Liburnia. Legend
says that from Cadmus and Harmonic,
through their son Illyrius, sprang the
tribes that perpetuated his name.
just north of lara (Zadar) one en-
tiers the waters of arcient Dalmatia.
Ranging in width from l to 50
miles, this little silver Of state en-
joyed a well-developed coast which
played its famous role in the sea
commerce of the Middle Ages.
Dalmatia of to-day has an erea of
4,916 square miles. The industries
supporting her $4,000 people are cat
tie breeding, viticulture, cereal rails
ing, and, of course, fishing. Her nets
are tended by 10000 fishermen, who
haul up annually some 1000 tons of
finny wealth. Though salt shortage
and other causes have diminished Dali
matia's cannery trade. she was in post
war days formidable picnic provider,
with yearly output Of 100000 tins
Of sardines.