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140 CHAPTER XIV. On horseback to Petroseny--A new town--Valuable coal-fields--Killing fish with dynamite and poison--Singular manner of repairing roads--Hungarian patriotism--Story of Hunyadi Janos--Intrusion of the Moslems into Europe 152 CHAPTER XV. Hunting for a guide--School statistics--Old times--Over the mountains to Herrmannstadt--Night in the open--Nearly setting the forest on fire--Orlat 160 CHAPTER XVI. Herrmannstadt--Saxon immigrants--Museum--Places of interest in the neighbourhood--The fortress-churches--Heltau--The Rothen Thurm Pass--Turkish incursions 173 CHAPTER XVII. Magyar intolerance of the German--Patriotic revival of the Magyar language--Ride from Herrmannstadt to Kronstadt--The village of Zeiden--Curious scene in church--Reformation in Transylvania--Political bitterness between Saxons and Magyars in 1848 184 CHAPTER XVIII. Political difficulties--Impatient criticism of foreigners--Hungary has everything to do--Tenant-farmers wanted--Wages 195 CHAPTER XIX. Want of progress amongst the Saxons--The Burzenland--Kronstadt--Mixed character of its inhabitants--Szeklers--General Bem's campaign 199 CHAPTER XX. The Tomoescher Pass--Projected railway from Kronstadt to Bucharest--Visit to the cavalry barracks at Rosenau--Terzburg Pass--Dr Daubeny on the extinct volcanoes of Hungary--Professor Judd on mineral deposits 209 CHAPTER XXI. A ride through Szeklerland--Warnings about robbers--Bueksad--A look at the sulphur deposits on Mount Buedos--A lonely lake--An invitation to Tusnad 219 CHAPTER XXII. The baths of Tusnad--The state of affairs before 1848--Inequality of taxation--Reform--The existing land laws--Communal property--Complete registration of titles to estates--Question of entail 232 CHAPTER XXIII. Fine scenery in Szeklerland--Csik Szent Marton--Absence of inns--The Szekler's love of lawsuits--Csik Szereda--Hospitality along the road--Wallack atrocities in 1848--The Wallacks not Panslavists 243 CHA
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