[529] The fact that a seafaring spirit was lacking practically everywhere in the Kingdom of Naples (18th century). Galanti [G. M. Galanti, Nuova descriozione geografica e politica delle Sicilie, (Napoli, 1788), vol. 3, p.329 et seq.] wrote that on the Adriatic, only the inhabitants of Bari undertook on long voyages: despite their owning 'badly built ships', they traded with Venice, Trieste and with the coasts of Dalmatia opposite them. As far as the other inhabitants of Apulia were concerned, the people in Foggia confined themselves to fishing; the people of Taranto set sail, but did not go beyond the Ionian Sea. Neither the population of the Abruzzi nor that of Calabria had a liking for the sea, but lacked the means, and did not go beyond trading with small boats along the coasts. The inhabitants of a hamlet near Tropea were the only exception: they traded along the coasts of France and Spain, and some of them had even ventured to America.