hin element
Filtering through the sands,
Which is sweeter than cinnamon,
And is well known to us hunters.
O, that eternal, healing draught,
Which comes from under the earth,
Which contains abundance of good
And costs no money!"

Returning to the hotel I satisfied my guide and dined. After dinner I
trifled agreeably with my brandy-and-water till it was near seven
o'clock, when I paid my bill, thought of the waiter and did not forget
Father Boots. I then took my departure, receiving and returning bows,
and walking to the station got into a first-class carriage and soon found
myself at Bangor.

CHAPTER XLIII

The Inn at Bangor--Port Dyn Norwig--Sea Serpent--Thoroughly Welsh
Place--Blessing of Health.

I went to the same inn at Bangor at which I had been before. It was
Saturday night and the house was thronged with people who had arrived by
train from Manchester and Liverpool, with the intention of passing the
Sunday in the Welsh town. I took tea in an immense dining or ball-room,
which was, however, so crowded with guests that its walls literally
sweated. Amidst the multitude I felt quite solitary--my beloved ones had
departed for Llangollen, and there was no one with whom I could exchange
a thought or a word of kindness. I addressed several individuals, and in
every instance repented; from some I got no answers, from others what was
worse than no answers at all--in every countenance near me suspicion,
brutality, or conceit, was most legibly imprinted--I was not amongst
Welsh, but the scum of manufacturing England.

Every bed in the house was engaged--the people of the house, however,
provided me a bed at a place which they called the cottage, on the side
of a hill in the outskirts of the town. There I passed the night
comfortably enough. At about eight in the morning I arose, returned to
the inn, breakfasted, and departed for Beth Gelert by way of Caernarvon.

It was Sunday, and I had originally intended to pass the day at Bangor,
and to attend divine service twice at the Cathedral, but I found myself
so very uncomfortable, owing to the crowd of interlopers, that I
determined to proceed on my journey without delay; making up my mind,
however, to enter the first church I should meet in which service was
being performed; for it is really not good to travel on the Sunday
without going into a place of worship.

The day was sunny and fiercely hot, as all the days had latel