on the roof an Italian flag. This canon, Dom
Ivo Bojani['c], could scarcely be blamed if the Italian innovations did
not appeal to him. He chanced to be looking out of his window on a
moonlit night and noticed that an agile policeman was climbing up to his
balcony for the purpose of decorating it with an Italian flag. The old
gentleman protested, and was thereupon taken to the barracks, where he
remained for one day. The Yugoslavs told us that the state of things was
worse than in Africa--but that was a figure of speech; the facts were
that the different societies and clubs had been closed, that all persons
going down to the harbour had been forbidden to speak their own language
to their friends on board ship, that three Croat teachers had fled to
escape being interned, while an Italian soldier who did not know a word
of Croatian had been appointed in their place.

FOUR MEN OF KOMI[vZ]A

When we departed from Hvar the Admiral sent his destroyer to accompany
us on our tour. She had on board a Roman journalist, Signor Roberto
Buonfiglio, who was travelling in Dalmatia and the islands on behalf of
the clerical _Corriere d'Italia_. The situation at Vis, the historic
palm-shaded capital of the island of the same name, has already been
described. The Italian Commandant, Sportiello, was a tactful and popular
person; moreover the Yugoslavs were on the best of terms with Dr. Doimi,
the head of one of the very rare Italian families. At Komi[vz]a, the
other little town on that island, the relations between Yugoslavs and
Italianists were not so cordial. But the deputation which represented
the latter party comprised one man whom the Austrians had put in gaol
for several years for forgery; a father and son, of whom the one had
sold himself for the sake of rice, while the other had also been
imprisoned by the Austrians for uttering false documents; the fourth and
most innocent member--his name happened to be Innocent Buliani--had
nothing to conceal except his fickleness, for in a short period he had
called himself an Austrian, a Yugoslav and an Italian. None of these
four was a native of the place, whereas the Yugoslavs who came to see us
were natives who had risen to be the chief doctor, lawyer, priest and
merchant. One of the Italianists, Antonio Spadoni, told us that the
people were afraid of expressing their real wishes for union with Italy.
This hypothesis might seem to demand some elucidation, but Signor
Spadoni insisted on