_ 168 _ All of these have Slavonian people subject to Venice. Off the island of Lissa there is a great sardine fishery, and these are sent to many places. To the south of San Andrea in the middle of the Gulf is a small uninhabited island called [Pomo]; it is shaped like a pine-cone or pear and is very high, hence its name. Very good falcons breed there, and the inhabitants of the neighbouring islands catch them and sell them. After that, we passed the large island sixty miles from San Andrea, off a city called Zara in Dalmatia. Near these islands there are many other islets or peaks. On the next day, we passed a large one called La Terra, on account of a settlement there of that name. The same Slavonian people live there. In the afternoon we passed another island called “The Butcher” [Camiciero] because the sea near it is always very rough, and a headland on the mainland where there is a settlement called Pula, built on the ruins of some large and ancient one which was once there, as its buildings show. It is here that the coast of Istria begins which stretches about a hundred miles to Venice and is under its rule. The people are all Italians, but because of a certain coarseness in their language they are called polacchi, as if to say vulgar. That night we came to a citadel on the same coast of Istria, twenty miles farther on, called Rovigno. It has a fine castle with a captain whom they call the potestade. He is
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