publick j- and,, on: that account,, were often expofed' to cruel
treatment from their bad neighbours.
In 1358 Lewis K ln g o f Hungary, reconquered littoral Dalmatia,
and. the ifknds o f the Quarnaro j and thé: inhabitants-of.
Pago, falling again under thè dominion o f Zara,, were treated:
with all the feverity b f wanton and cruel tyranny. T h e di-
ftreffed iilanders- had recourfe to the King, who,, being convinced
o f the abufe which, the Zaratirres had made o f his donation,,
fet Pago quite at liberty from their flaveiy ; and flnce that time,,
the portion o f the ifland; that was fitbjedl to Zara, had a government
apart, and the other portion haring: been humanely
treated by the Arbegiani,,remained united to that government..
As the Paghejt had now their particular governor,, fo they
were defirous o f having their own Bifliop a lfe ,that they might,
have nothing to do. with Zara, not even in ecclefiaili.cal matters ;
and, by a feries of. Angular circumftonces, eight Bilhops were
elected by that people from 1.393 to 1560,.but notone of. them
were confecrated feme of them died on.their journey, to Rome,
and the others met with unfurmauntable. difficulties. In the
laft. century they attempted again, £ve or fix. times,, to-obtain
that honour,but always in vain.
T h e mod confpicuous families of the City o f Pago are the
Caffich, Jadruld, Portadoi Graffo, & r. There are two convents
o f friars, and one o f nuns ; and feveral Churches, all in very,
bad order, and ill ferved ; at ferra Pecchia-alfe-there is a Convent
of Francifean monks, a race o f men who, under various
names and difguilès, infeft every place where credulous ignorance
can be perfuaded to maintain the idle and fuperftitious.
Out
Out o f the ruins 'of Keffa arofethe two hamlets of old and
mew Novaglia, firuated in the belt part o f the ifland, and mod
convenient for trade with Dalmatia as we'll as Italy. I faw
there feme fragments o f Roman infcriptipns-of the beft times,
which cannot be fufpedted to have been tranfeorted from -other
places into a Country full o f ftones of its own.
Colane and Vlaffch are alfopoor villi ages, and the inhabitants
o f them, together with thofe o f the twp Novaglia’s, fcarcely a-
xnount to fix hundred fouls” " The chefs o f the women o f Vlaffch
Is very curious, and more gay then that o f the iilanders o f the
channel o f Zaras but I had not time to take a drawing o f it.
Cujioms and Suferffitions.
T h e difficulty o f accefs to the City o f Pago, and the ill accommodation
that ftrangers meet with, make it very little frequented.
Hence the inhabitants are as wild and -unpolifhed,
as if they lay at the greateft diftance from the, fea, and the commerce
o f polite people. The gentry who pretend to Ihew
their manners- different from thofe of the vulgar are truly gro-
tefque figures, both in their drefs, behaviour, and infolent pre-
tenfions. The ignorance o f the Clergy is incredible; a prieft
o f the greateft confequence there; and who was thought a man
o f learning, did not know how; Pago was called in Latin,
The greateft part o f the people o f Pago live by working in
the fait pits, and have a comfortable fubfiftence regularly paid by
the Government; it is therefore a very important circumftance
for the inhabitants o f the City to have a dry fummer ; and hence
T t t z the