PTER XXIV.

Ride to Szent Domokos--Difficulty about quarters--Interesting
host--Jewish question in Hungary--Taxation--Financial matters 252

CHAPTER XXV.

Copper mine of Balanbanya--Miners in the wine-shop--Ride to St
Miklos--Visit to an Armenian family--Capture of a robber--Cold
ride to the baths of Borsek 260

CHAPTER XXVI.

Moldavian frontier--Toelgyes--Excitement about robbers--Attempt
at extortion--A ride over the mountains--Return to St Miklos 275

CHAPTER XXVII.

Toplicza--Armenian hospitality--A bear-hunt--A ride over to the
frontier of Bukovina--Destruction of timber--Maladministration
of State property--An unpleasant night on the
mountain--Snowstorm 282

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Visits at Transylvanian chateaux--Society--Dogs--Amusements at
Klausenburg--Magyar poets--Count Istvan Szechenyi--Baron
Eoetvos--'The Village Notary'--Hungarian self-criticism--Literary
taste 291

CHAPTER XXIX.

A visit at Schloss B------National characteristics--Robber
stories--Origin of the "poor lads"--Audacity of the
robbers--Anecdote of Deak and the housebreaker--Romantic story
of a robber chief 302

CHAPTER XXX.

Return to Buda-Pest--All-Souls' Day--The cemetery--Secret burial
of Count Louis Batthyanyi--High rate of mortality at Buda-Pest 315

CHAPTER XXXI.

Skating--Death and funeral of Deak--Deak's policy--Uneasiness
about the rise of the Danube--Great excitement about
inundations--The capital in danger--Night scene on the
embankment--Firing the danger-signal--The great calamity averted 321

CHAPTER XXXII.

Results of the Danube inundations--State of things at
Baja--Terrible condition of New Pest--Injuries sustained by the
island garden of St. Marguerite--Charity organisation 335

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Expedition to the Marmaros Mountains--Railways in Hungary--The
train stopping for a rest--The Alfoeld--Shepherds of the
plain--Wild appearance of the Rusniacks--Slavs of Northern
Hungary--Marmaros Szigeth--Difficulty in slinging a hammock--The
Jews of Karasconfalu--Soda manufactory at Boeska--Romantic
scenery--Salt mines--Subterranean lake 339

CHAPTER XXXIV.

The Tokay district--Visit at Schloss G------Wild-boar
hunting--In