New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-25
LETTERS on HUNGARY. No. TX.
70 fhe ES,tors Of TIE Ncss- York TrtbHns:
INNER HrNGARY, Mar, 1881.
BY Mr.. BRACE

INNER HUNGARY, MAY, 1851.
After long drive over the Pnszta in
genuine Hungarian "turn out J. {. wicker wa
ron. and four horses abreast, gently attached to
the vehicle by small cords, we reached gentle
mans estate, IN the prairie near the upper
Thesis Despite our Tough-loOklng horses ana
rather fral harness. we had ratified over the
plain at a most inspiriting pace, and came IN
al the house in very good season we were
welcomed as II old acquaintance, though
visit from an American in that retired spot must
have been a most unexpected event. The table
was soon set with the choicest Hungarian
dishes, and We spent together a pleasant eve
ming At the end we were shown into 4 large
apartment. which seemed 10 be furnished with
several beds for guests who might arrive, and
left 10 sleep away soundly our days fatigue.
Il was rather characteristic Of Hungarian man
nors that the last thing saw before gong to
sleep Of my companion. who had cone with me,
was long pipe, protrudng from the bed-clothes.
and the hrst thing which met my eye IN the
morning. was a cloud Of smoke, gently as
cending from the same pile OF blankets aud
pillows.
As soon as possible, after the Hungarian
breaktast-a cup OF coffee and some bits OF toast
But first. your readers may be interested 10
know something Of the house itself. Like all
the houses of the Hungarlsns, of gentle and SIM
pie. II has only one story. though that is high
and airy The main apartment, where the family
dine ana ST mostly stretches through the house
from front 10 rear, and Is very spacious, cool
room fer their hot summers. lt opens IN ironI
on a p0rucO, under which are seats for the
smokers and on the other side the windows
l.. p HAM " AZ
walks. which conduct to a knoll overlooking the
Wlre plain Of the Thesis. The otherapartmenIs
a. ;hc house are arranged on each SIDE Oh lonS
corridor running thc whole length OF the build
ing
nation are widely behind tie rest OF Europe IN
PRACTICAL improvements Their houses especial
IL show it-cool and pleasant enough Tor the
Summer but with scarcely any oi those little
convenlences that make UP our idea OF comfort.
Rich furniture often IN the drawing rooms
and the kitchen IN 4 neighb0rlng out-house-oT
m a little dark hole IN the house, with the smoke
curling up, through an aperture IN the ROOF.
Baths. or gas-lightlng, or private or separate
chambers are almost unknown IN even the best
houses of the inland towns. And the mas, In
everything which can be called convenience,
throughout interior Hungary are we may fairly
saw nearly the worst IN the world The usual
stvle is. low, whlte-washed structure, built
around three sides OF barn-yard, IN tae midst
Of " hich Is commonly a rocking pooh. The
rooms are seldom clean, and the common COM
forts of a hotel are utterly absent. 90 not mean
that any traveller, furnished with letters OF nitro
ductroy as was wall ever find any Incayen-
fence from all this. For, such generous, open
lospisallty as the Hungarians show, Is to be seen
m no land and would make the mos. taStidious
person entirely cOntented. mention this mere
" to show in what respects the country Is as yet
u l.. 10 bNtt IN "a
character of the nation. Give them good gov
eminent, and free contact with the world, Tor a
halfdozen years, and they would equal any ma
ton i'm Europe in their practical progress. As
Is. their chief city, Pesth will compare tavora-
bly, with any capital, IN this respect
As the gentleman whom was visiting was
large farmer, his house formed KIND OF center
Ia "A collection of BauerCabins on every side,
belonging to his workmen. These. together with
his out houses, were well separated from his
own grounds and screened 10y large hedge OF
llacs and acacias We went out. FIRST In our
ramDle to his barns and cattie-yards. they were
not by any means as extensive as one would eX-
10 Ct from the size of the iarn-some 500 acres
around the house, with an indefinite extent into
the Puszta side. However 1t appears the cat
tie are almost entirely kept on the Puszta IN the
Summer and only brought IN to be sold or killed
In the Fall The hay and gram, too, are very
much stacked m the open air These barns
which saw were all made OF mud-blocks and
whltewashed, with roofs matched with reeds,
and generally, like the best OF our own, bulls
around the three sides of yard.
There were but few OF the cattle oI annals
in the yards, though this gentleman has some 500
head of cattle, half as many of horse l,5Oo
sheep, SEQ swine, and other things, IN real
patriarchal style. What there were there, how
ever. were fine looking ANIMALS. II any OF our
fancy farmers would like an IDEA! Of a COW,
cow such as nature must have intended II, he
ought 10 90 10 Hungary for 1t.
Imagine a tall, powerful animal, 'ome two
hands gher than our COWS, with long, straight
back heavy dew.lap, the color pure white, or
sometimes slightly mingled with gray, head
raised proudly IN the air and nostrils snuifing
the breeze and bright black eye , add TO this
horns some three feet long, curyng directly back
like e-buck's, and step not at all like the
waddling gait Of our cows, but erect and light
as stays and you have as beautiiuEappearing
an animal as one OF ten sees among the tame
breeds
The only trouble we should have with such
cows IN our country would be the destruction
they would work TO all kinds OF hedges and
fences However, seen in herds OF five hundred
or a thousand. on the Hungarian Puszta, step
ping proudly over the meadows, they do make a
ost striking appearance Their beet Is very
good, equal to the English, though they do not
weld by any means as much milk as the smaller
and better.ied breeds.
The sheep and hogs of the farm were nearly
all, at this season, on me Puszta. Those | saw
then Of the hogs were a small legged, brown
colored, breed not large in body, but very fat
generally The genuine Hungarian breed, or at
least, the one most common, IS paIti.colored
animal, covered with a snort, curled hair, az
well as bristles-yery tough, they say, to the
climate, and fatting well on the pralrles
IN looking around IN the barn-yards | noticed
a great quantity OF small, square pieces OF dry
dung, arranged IN rows supposed OF course
it was intended for manure, but happened to
ask some question about 1t, and learned that this
was for fu,Il 1t brought up at once another OF
the thousand tokens | meet with all the while
OF the Oriental and nomadic origin OF this peo-
pie. Who has forgotten what travellers tells u.
OF the dung fuel of the Tartars on the steppes OF