Part 86

Pigs, in streets, 128, 206, 207; their food, 173; can detect werewolves, 176.

Pilgrims, at Lucera, 4; at Sant’ Angelo, 18; their specific odour and capacity for mischief, 19; foul appearance, 27; a debased Christianity, 28; behaviour at Venosa, 40.

Pines, absent in Pollino forests, 146; the Calabrian variety, 196, 204; of Aleppo, 285.

Pious legends, their drawback, 262.

Piracy. See Corsairs and Saracens.

Pitch, the Bruttian, 204, 285, 286.

Pitrè, G., 300.

Platitudes, Italian and English love of, 14.

Plato, quoted, 116; his cloudy philosophy, 311; food for adolescents, 312.

Pleasure, danger of repressing, 153.

Pliny the Elder, 80, 281, 284, 285, 307.

Pococke, R., 121.

Poets, why deficient in humour, 58.

Policoro, forest, 95 seq.; its game, 96; eucalyptus avenue, 97; buffaloes, 99.

Polistena, town, 234.

Pollino, mountain,, 108; derivation of the name, 142; the peak, 143-145; terminates Apennines, 145; its forests, 145-148.

Polybius, 80.

Pompeio, fountain, 196.

Pontanus, humanist, 18.

Ponza, island, 276.

Pope, A., prince of snobs, 127.

Porcupine, approaching extinction, 184.

Potenza, 32.

Potteries of Grottaglie, 78; of Taranto, 92; of Corigliano, 173.

Pratilii, F. M., 143.

Praxiteles, 286.

Preconi, H., 78.

Prehistoric stations in South Italy, 119; weapons, 3, 119, 179, 224.