Bocche di Cattaro

"[From the diary]. «The Kotor sharply turned the point called Punta d'Ostro, with its ruinous, yellow-toned old castle, and we entered a narrow little channel. In another minute or so we were actually in the calm, lovely waters of the Bocche, which spread out before us like an inland sea. The Bocche di Cattaro is really a chain of little lakes, joined together by narrow, tortuous channels, shut in by towering mountains, which rise from the water's edge like a Norwegian fjord. The Bocche, or 'mouths', are almost thirteen miles long, and famous for magnificent scenery. As if to add a finishing touch to the whole picture, there were a couple of Austrian gunboats at anchor, and some snorting and puffing little torpedo boats were darting about. The largest of the bays are Castelnuovo, Teodo, Perasto, and that of Cattaro. Every moment, as we went further into the Bocche, the more magnificent became the mountains»" (pp. 315-316).