Deforestation, impairs climate and national character, 12-13; fosters malaria, 32, 286; in Apulia, 44; at Castrovillari, 121; in Pollino region, 147-148; in “Greek” Sila, 180, 195; in Greater Sila, 207, 217, 218, 223; diminishes water-supply, 180, 217; in Crati-valley, 287.
Deities, sullied by vulgar contact, 24; must be plastic to survive, 25.
Delianuova, town, 240, 241, 245, 274.
Delizie Tarentine, 80.
Deluge, legend of, 174.
Democritus of Abdera, 312.
Demon of Midday, 321.
Demosthenes, 27, 279.
Deputy, my friend the Roman, on the need of employing employes, 20; discusses octroi officials, 34; how to manage the bourgeoisie, 87; disapproves of English methods, 117-119.
Devil, his perennial popularity, 25; his honesty, 266.