CHAPTER XXVIII.

SOME LITTLE ADVENTURES BY THE WAY.

Letter-Writing Under Difficulties.--An Exemplary Traveller.--A Mild Sensation in Leyden.--A German Baby-Cart out of its Element.--Something New in Venice.--No Place for Wheels.--Gondolas and Gondoliers.--Wonderful Dexterity with a Single Oar.--A Scattering of Baggage on the Streets of Cologne.--Disastrous Descent of a Baby-Cart from the Top of an Omnibus.--Extortion and Fraud in Sacred Places, 254