Departing from Venice on Thursday, 18 August [1323], we sailed over to Pola, which is in the province of Istria and subject to the Venetians. Here is an exellent port well protected from the wind. Two more days of sailing brought us to Zara, a most wealthy and well fortified city, in which is preserved the body of the blessed Gregory the martyr.26 It is distant 300 miles from Venice,27 and is in the province of Dalmatia which also belongs to the Venetians. Here the women are wonderfully adorned; for some wear on their heads a horn-shaped ornament like owls, others an oblong and square one, and others a large and round hat, decorated in the front part with precious stones, tall and well suited as a protection against hail, wind, rain and sun. It is said that as many islands are subject to this province as there are days in the year.