The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-01-26
SCENES ALoNG THE DANUBE.

Passengers again change boats at Pesth,
for the service below this point requires
heavier craft than any on which we have thus
far travelled down the river. The next stage
of the journey extends to Belgrade, the
Servian ex-capital, and the boat, the Carl
Ludwig, departs at II P. M. There are good
sleeping accommodations on board, and one
rises next morning to good breakfast and
the prospect of a pleasant days SAIL ending
at Belgra lie about dark.
At Baja, the first town of Importance
reached in the morning, we may already dis
Germ smack of the Oriental in the tunics aud
baggy trousers of the working men. If it be
Sunday, here and there to be seen are groups
of wellto-do Hungarian peasants, the women
in vari-color skirts and bodices, the men in
high, rimless cloth hats and long white robes
embroidered in red and gold, and fastened by
belt at the waist. At every turn there is
village, and in every village a church spire
with cross at its summit. The luxuriance
of the tree growth along the river banks
strikes one as noticeable and not less pleas
ing is the wonderful agricultural wealth ev-
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vast grain field.
The floating grain mills on the Danube are
perhaps its most curious feature. Fancy two
canal boats moored parallel to each other, in
mid-river, about fifteen or twenty feet apart
and supporting between them the crank of a
gigantic mill wheel, turned by the current of
the stream. Fancy, moreover, the sides of
one of these boats carried up one story higher
than those of the other, then rooted over, la
Noah's Ark, with doors and windows as
needed-and you have fair idea of these
Danube grain mills, some four or Eve thous-
and of which, in groups of ten or a dozen to-
gether, are scattered along this watery high
way, all the way down from Vienna to
Belgrade. Each mill is inscribed with the
owners name, and l found time, in passing,
20 copy one or two, such as "Juhas Istvany
ces Laudos - and Jonasvitch Makopoponi,"
as being curious samples of Magyar peasant
nomenclature. AS the steamer goes shooting
by these mills, so close that the slow "Clack,
clsck," of the mill wheel is distinctly audible,
it is amusing to note the inmates, looking for
all the world like Humpty Dumpty in the
play, rushing TO their doors or windows to
wave q salute, and have look at the passen-
gers.
An Austrian General with two of his staff
was among our fellow passengers. At Com
hos, where tho river Brave comes in, a bat
talon of infantry from Esseg came aboard. en-
route Tor the garrison at Neusatz iurtner
down, and | took pleasure in noticing the
punctilious promptitude with which all the
captains and lieutenants at once came on
deck to salute their superior officer, of whose
presence they had somehow learned Each
came up in turn to where the General was
standing, halted abruptly, struck the position
of soldier, stood erect, lifted his hand, palm
outward to his cap visor, saluted with rigid
courtesy, and then made room for the next.
These formalities once concluded there was a
general handshaking, and then the newly ar
rived line officers-a jolly set of fellows they
were, too--witbdrew to the further end of the
saloon deck, and quietly proceeded to make
themselves at home-not SO very quietly
either, for remember that during the after
noon they favored us with an operatic selec-
ton whstled in chorus, impromptu, but not
badly done. As for the soldiers, who were
crowded together forward, they amused
themselves until dark in waving salutes to
every woman, old or young, comedy or home
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river banks as the boat passed Tribune.
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