Europe -- Description and travel
Arrival at Pesth--Embarkation on board the steam-boat--Congress of Hungarian ladies--General appearance of Pesth--Buda--Mills on the Danube--Fruit-boats--Wool-waggons--Wicker carriages--Captain Cozier--Scene on board--Tyrolese emigrants--Tyrolese amusements--Countess N—— —Mold...
Arrival at Pesth--Embarkation on board the steam-boat--Congress of Hungarian ladies--General appearance of Pesth--Buda--Mills on the Danube--Fruit-boats--Wool-waggons--Wicker ca...
2. CHAPTER II.Dinner--Languages of the party--English groom--State of the neighbourhood of Tolna--System of landowners--English farmers in requisition--Arrival at Tolna--Battle with dogs--Sea...
3. CHAPTER III.Steam-boat aground--Tyrolese melodies--Night scene--“Hanger on”--Auction at cards--Knave of clubs game--How to float a steamer--Military valet--Kamenitz--Odescalchi convent--Par...
4. CHAPTER IV.Windings of the Danube--Civility of the Moldavian--Arrival at Moldava--Arrangements for voyage to Orsova--A Wallachian beauty--Flock of geese--Ditto of children--Woodmen--Commen...
5. CHAPTER V.Pastoral scene--Echoes--Picture of laziness--Rapids of the Danube--Miller and his men--Pedestrian excursion--Wallachian shepherdesses--Dancing boors--Scene at Swinich--Priest of...
6. CHAPTER VI.Domestic arrangements--Count Szechenyi--Milanosch--Works on the Danube--Picture of industry--Auberge--Vedran’s cave--Rocky scenery--Arrival at Orsova--My chamber and its ornamen...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.First appearance of Wallachia--The Iron Door--Trajan’s road--Reform of the Hungarian representation--Corporations--Finances--Education-- Justice--Wallachian Gladova--Servian Gla...
9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.Zitara Palanka--Turkish hospitality--Interior of a caffiné-- Mahometan devotee--Orisons--Race of Tartars--Social variety-- Turkish khan--The nargillé--Supper--Woman--Seclusion o...
11. CHAPTER XI.Sistow--A delusion--New friends--Good fortune--Greek civility-- Wallachian merchants--Supper--Amicable discussion--Gil Blas-- Wallachian ambition--Chief of the Tartars--Striking...
12. CHAPTER XII.13. CHAPTER XIII.14. CHAPTER XIV.A white cock--Russian agency--Specimen of cookery--Dining in state--Departure from Silivria--Mahometan causeway--Perilous roads--Knowing horses--First view of Constantinople--Ad...
15. CHAPTER I.Arrival at Pesth--Embarkation on board the steam-boat--Congress of Hungarian ladies--General appearance of Pesth--Buda--Mills on the Danube--Fruit-boats--Wool-waggons--Wicker ca...
16. CHAPTER II.Dinner--Languages of the party--English groom--State of the neighbourhood of Tolna--System of landowners--English farmers in requisition--Arrival at Tolna--Battle with dogs--Sea...
17. CHAPTER III.Steam-boat aground--Tyrolese melodies--Night scene--“Hanger on”--Auction at cards--Knave of clubs game--How to float a steamer--Military valet--Kamenitz--Odescalchi convent--Par...
18. CHAPTER IV.Windings of the Danube--Civility of the Moldavian--Arrival at Moldava--Arrangements for voyage to Orsova--A Wallachian beauty-- Flock of geese--Ditto of children--Woodmen--Comme...
19. CHAPTER V.Pastoral scene--Echoes--Picture of laziness--Rapids of the Danube--Miller and his men--Pedestrian excursion--Wallachian shepherdesses--Dancing boors--Priest of the parish--The g...
20. CHAPTER VI.Domestic arrangements--Count Szechenyi--Milanosch--Works on the Danube--Picture of industry--Auberge--Vedran’s cave--Rocky scenery--Arrival at Orsova--My chamber and its ornamen...
21. CHAPTER VII.After coffee we rose from the table, and the Count and I walked to the Lazaretto, a clean, airy building, about a mile from Orsova. As he was about to go to Bucharest, and on hi...
22. CHAPTER VIII.First appearance of Wallachia--The Iron Door--Reform of the Hungarian representation--Corporations--Finances--Education--Justice--Wallachian Gladova--Servian Gladova--Trajan’s b...
23. CHAPTER IX.The vice-governor was a fat, sickly-looking man, about fifty years of age, and grave even to stupidity. He could not hold out his curiosity beyond the ordinary question, whence...
24. CHAPTER X.Soon after daybreak (October 9) our men were at their oars, which they plied with a degree of vigour and determination very different indeed from the annoying and invincible ind...
25. CHAPTER XI.The labours of our crew were recommenced at daybreak (Oct. 11), and at nine o’clock we came in sight of Sistow, which was still mantled in gossamer vapours. Here and there the s...
26. CHAPTER XII.Having all refreshed ourselves and our horses at the fountain, we remounted in the bright light of the moon, which almost renewed the day. There was a balmy softness in the air...
27. CHAPTER XIII.My companions were all Turks, apparently of a very respectable class in society. Besides the divan which afforded couches to six or seven persons, two others had mattresses on t...
28. CHAPTER XIV.A white cock--Russian agency--Specimen of cookery--Dining in state--Departure from Silivria--Mahometan causeway--Perilous roads--Knowing horses--First view of Constantinople--Ad...