[213] A complaint was made to King Robert of Naples because of the acts of piracy committed by the people of Manfredonia, Lib. Ref., i., 1325, Oct. 17, p. 184.
[214] Mon. Slav. Mer., i. 204, Misti, 1326-27.
[215] Istituzioni Marittime e Sanitarie, p. 16.
[216] The custom was an Italian one, and the word ceppo is still used for Christmas box, or even for Christmas itself.
[217] Gelcich, op. cit., p. 17.
[218] Mon. Slav. Mer., i. 204, Misti, 1329.
[219] Mjatović, Studies in the History of Servian Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Glasnik, vol. 33, 37, 38; Jireček, op. cit.
[220] Jireček, op. cit.
[221] There are hardly any distinctive traces now of the Vlachs in Dalmatia, save in the name Morlacchi, given to the Slaves generally by the Italians of the coast towns. In Macedonia, however, the Kutzo-Vlachs are numerous, and preserve both their language, which belongs to the Neo-Latin group, and their nomadic habits. There they still ply the trade of cattle-drovers or that of wandering merchants. See Jireček, op. cit., p. 60; also his Wlachen und Maurowlachen, passim; and Turkey in Europe, by “Odysseus.”
[222] Afterwards called Carina = custom house.