"Wherever you please, provided you let this man know where it is, so
that he can give you notice when the peotta is ready to sail.  My
duty," he added, "is to leave you at the lazzaretto of Ancona free of
expense from the moment we leave this place.  Until then enjoy
yourself as well as you can." 

The man to whom I was to give my address was the captain of the
peotta.  I asked him to recommend me a lodging. 

"You can come to my house," he said, "if you have no objection to
share a large bed with the cook, whose wife remains on board." 

Unable to devise any better plan, I accepted the offer, and a sailor,
carrying my trunk, accompanied me to the dwelling of the honest
captain.  My trunk had to be placed under the bed which filled up the
room.  I was amused at this, for I was not in a position to be over-
fastidious, and, after partaking of some dinner at the inn, I went
about the town.  Chiozza is a peninsula, a sea-port belonging to
Venice, with a population of ten thousand inhabitants, seamen,
fishermen, merchants, lawyers, and government clerks.