CHAPTER XV

Leaving Kaufbeuern on the Left Hand--Crossing the Wardach and the Lech--A welcome Ferry-boat--The Town of Weilheim--A long and exhausting March--The Soporific of Fatigue--The Ferry over the River Inn--Frightened at a Soldier--A false Alarm--Crossing the River--The Town of Reichenhall--Our Approach to the Bavarian Frontiers--The Increase of Dangers--Passing Barriers with Success--A Supposition that we were in the Austrian Dominions--A woeful Miscalculation and a narrow Escape from its fatal Consequences--An unexpected Demand for Passports--An Evasion--The Bavarian and Austrian Confines--Our extreme Danger--Anticipating the Galleys--A Track through a Wood at the foot of a Mountain--A Flight--The Boundary passed, and the Fugitives in the Emperors Dominions--Soldiers in Ambush--The Fugitives captured--Feigning to be Americans from Altona--Rage of the Bavarian Guard at being outwitted Page 247