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more compact when they want to place themselves snugly alongside other boats in the inside stonewalled basins of the town
[[Image: drawing of front half of boat with the annotations:  Forestay, Mast, outhaul, Bowsprit]]
Wide galvanized ring moved fore and backwards by means of the outhaul rope, thus enabling either to set up a forestay or to hoist the bowsprit vertically.
[[underlined]] Sept 29 [[/underlined]] Went to visit the famous [[underlined]] stalactite cave [[/underlined]] near Obilireo. More interesting than the grotto is the view of the town from the climbing car. [[underlined]] Country [[/underlined]] around Grotto [[underlined]] very barren [[/underlined]]
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and [[underlined]] squalid [[/underlined]] and the few farmhouses look [[underlined]] poor [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] dirty [[/underlined]] so do the inhabitants who are [[underlined]] Slovenes. [[/underlined]] My guide tells me in [[strikethrough]] Ger [[/strikethrough]] broken German that formerly, [[underlined]] stone cutting gave employment to 6000 [[/underlined]] workmen while now only 800 are employed. The stone is [[underlined]] compact white limestone [[/underlined]] The trip down [[underlined]]the cave[[underlined]] with its endless steps is [[underlined]] tiresome [[/underlined]] and shows nothing new to anybody who has visited similar caves elsewhere. Altho' the farmers ^[[farmers]] seem poor I noticed some fine looking bulls.  
Afternoon [[strikethrough]] went [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] hired [[/underlined]] a [[underlined]] sailboat [[/underlined]] and went out to [[underlined]] Miramar castle. [[/underlined]] The boat a heavy double ender rowboat carried a [[underlined]] lug sail, standing lug [[/underlined]] which appeared [[underlined]] much too small [[/underlined]] at first. But there

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There are famous caves near Opatija. That may be what Baekeland is calling Obilireo.