The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1870-09-07
lFor tho Herald.

leave tho little Kingdom Of Den
mark, and proceed Southward,
through tho countries of tho Ger
man States, Austria, North Italy,
Switzerland, france and England,
mentioning, perhaps, somo fcw
things Of note and interest in each.
But first, l. will mention incidcn-
tally my trip from Copenhagen to
Hamburg, North Germany, as in
that Journey, | met with incidents
and dangers which, in all proba-
bllity, will never occur again dur
ing the whole course Of my life.
Thc past winter was the most Sc
we're, as you arc doubtless aware,
that has been experienced in Eu-
ropo for II number Of ycars,-as
you may know from tho fact that
as far South as Vienna, the Aus
trian capital, tho tn srmomctor
(Rcaumur) stood at 15o and 1G0
cold for about twelve days. The
Baltic in its narrowcst places, was
OF course, frozen ovcr-thus bar
ring all communication by steam
with the countries north Of it, un-
til Il line OF icc-boats was impro-
vlscd that carried tho mail and
passengers TO tho Continent by
the circuitous route Of Jutland in-
stead Of going direct from Korsor
to kicI. 1t WAS by this route, ,and
by these icc-boats that l. got to
the Continent, via tho islands of
SproSo and Fycn. SO to give you
short and imperfect description
OF the first part of this journey, I
beg to copy the following from my
journal:
Isle Of Sprogo, 5-2-AIinuil.
Well, am here at last, probably at
the terminus Of my journey, at
least, prospects :trc very discour-
aging. \ nice trip VIC have had
since I O'Clock this morning, COM
ing seven or eight G don't know
whirh) English miles It's not
Farther than this, am certain, for
on arriving here tho sailors said
that the place we left this morn
ing could DC distinctly seen when
the weather was clear. Let me
see il can give Il faint idea Of
how we got TO this little islc In
the first place, We (thirty passcn-
gers--$iN ladies incIusivc) camc
from korsor 10 II place on the
Zealand cpast--Carlstrup-in dill
gcnccs. Th;s occupied only half
an hour; so, on arriving at the
latter place, We had to wait till
the luggage WAS stocd away in the
hoI'ki Of the vessels, nine in num-
bcr, which were there in waiting
for us. These were on top Of the
ice and proppcd SO rs to rest on
their kccls
Everything beng ready, thcy
were AL then turned so as to rest
on the kcc! and side, when the
I sailors buclilcd on their harness.
the passengers gave their aid, and
OF the boats sided. Tho ico IN
some places was very uneven,
caused By the drift-icc being
thrown upon the other and then
freezing ; thus making obstacles
III our way, which, when present.
cd, VIC had difficult but merry
time, showing the boats over
These little hills Of ice wcrc not
very high, from three to four fcot,
but they were generally from two
to three hundred yards long; and
on account Of their extreme rough
ness, il was rather tedious to make
any progress whatever. When
We arrived at tho termination Of
the zee, or rather, tho icc which |
was thick enough to bear our
wcights-for il was not entirely
clear any part Of tho entire dis
tancc-tho passengers halted, and
tho boats wcrc pushed forward till
tho ice gavo way and lot them
into tho water. We were thon
about three miles from tho coast
which We had just lefty In doing
this tho sailors had to remain near
tho vessels and not push with
their pixies, SO they could Jump
within when tho boat wont down.
The passengers then walked or
rather wadcd to their respective
boats on huge blocks of floating
ice, and got within partly by
climbing and Dartly bv bcino