Chapter 4

We took a drive round the city, and on returning through some parts of the old town we found the streets so narrow and dirty that we thought the fire had hardly gone far enough.

As we approached nearer home our desire to arrive, like falling bodies, increased in intensity, and we engaged the first steamer to Hull.

It proved to be the "Transit," very improperly named, being one of the slowest on that station. We found it very small and the deck entirely covered with hampers of cherries and cucumbers, and the interior accommodation little better.

This, with unfavourable weather, made the three and a half days' sail appear very long and disagreeable, but at the same time rendered doubly dear, home, sweet home.

We completed the excursion in little over five weeks, and considered ourselves very amply repaid for all the trouble and expense, and do not hesitate to recommend the same trip to all persons having the three important requisites--means, time and inclination.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Count Alexander Adlerberg.

[2] Count Vladimer Adlerberg, Minister of the Imperial Household and personal friend of the Tsar.

[3] Mrs. Heywood.

[4] Serfdom was abolished in 1861.

[5] Mrs. Heywood.

End of Project Gutenberg's A Journey in Russia in 1858, by Robert Heywood