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CHAPTER XVII.

Pilot left behind at Modone.—Don Bernardino Con¬
tarini goes on Board the Galley.—Zante Sighted.—
Great Storm.—Curzola.—Lesina.--Description of
this Island. — Franciscan Friary. — Sermon in
the Cathedral.—Galley Anchored at La Murata
near Sebenico.—Several Pilgrims leave the Ship.—
Death of a French Pilgrim.—Zara.—Storm in the
Quarnero.—Brioni.—Istrian Stone.—Church of the
Four Crowned Heads.—Majority of the Pilgrims
take small boats to go direct to Venice.—Parenzo.
—Pilot taken Aboard and the Galley sets Sail for
Venice.

At Modone the captain left the pilot whom he had taken
there on the way out, and he took on board the galley one
of his relatives named Don Bernardino Contarini, who
wanted to go to Corfu; but he and all the others who
desired to go there were disappointed, because it was not
possible to touch there on account of the weather.

When the galley was well started in the name of God,
and after dinner was over, the said Don Bernardino, who
had dined with the captain and those other Venetian
gentlemen, in reply to questions addressed to him, because
he had just come aboard, began to speak of the affairs of
the West—of the Pope, of the King of France and of our
Lord Lodovico, I think he spoke of what he knew and
what he did not know, and far from the truth; nevertheless
some of the things he said, which we did not believe, were
afterwards found to be true. I appeared to believe them
like the others, and the more so, when they redounded to

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