DALMATIA AND MONTENEGRO: WITH A JOURNEY TO MOSTAR IN HERZEGOVINA, AND REMARKS ON THE SLAVONIC NATIONS; THE HISTORY OF DALMATIA AND RAGUSA; THE USCOCS; &c. &c. BY SIR J. GARDNER WILKINSON, F.R.S. " &c. &c. &c. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. ков ΤΟ MR. AND MRS. HIGFORD BURR, TO WHOSE KINDNESS I HAVE BEEN SO MUCH INDEBTED, BOTH IN ENGLAND, AND IN MY LAST VISIT TO THE MEDITERRANEAN, This Work is Enscribed, BY THEIR OBLIGED FRIEND, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. IN giving an account of countries not generally known, or visited, like Dalmatia, Montenegro, and Herzegóvina, I have thought it would increase their interest to accompany it with some remarks on the origin of the people, who now inhabit them, and with a summary of their history. Every one is aware of the interest attached to countries that abound in early associations, and the comparative indifference with which monuments of by-gone days are viewed, when no historical recollections are connected with them; a strong proof of which may be found in the impressions of every one who visits any of the most imperfect remains at Rome, and the absence of those enthusiastic feelings, when he sees the more perfect remains at Nîmes, and other places, whose history is less known. The same remark applies to the mention of places destitute of historical associations, or, at least, those with whose history we are unacquainted. I have, therefore, endeavoured to supply the interest, which the mere names of districts or towns would fail to afford, by noticing the events that took place there, as well as the |