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aborigines in exchange for furs, hemp
and slaves.
A sharp-eyed traveller may discover
what appears to be some vandals
name scratched in capital letters on
the sheer cliff-face Of the defle and
may be ready to compare it to lotto
Schwartz, Berlin" on the Pyramids,
of "W. Brown, N. "" on spire of
Milan cathedral. But with marine
glasses he will find that the scratch
ings read: Imp. Caesar. Ira
Janus Aug. Germ. Pont. Maximus."
Trajan, or any other Roman who could
lead an army along the fiat face of
those river-washed cliffs by means of
beam-supported galleries, he will
agree, had perfect right to cut his
name there!
For two days and nights the boat
churns ahead between wide plains,
and on the third afternoon comes into
sight of Belgrade (Beograd) Perched
high over the confluence Of the Danube
and the Sava. the Jugoslav capital
presents striking picture. Few Eu-
ropean cities are situated on two such
waterways, whose navigable lengths
within Jugoslavia total 720 miles.
Budapest a Stately City.
Not to know Budapest is to have
missed one of the lOveliest Of Euro
pean cities. 1t has it's own distinctive
stateliness that reflects the cultural
Towering Of race whose kingdom has
been enthroned on the Danube for a
| thousand years. AS certain American
metropolitan quarters, such as little
Italy" or Little Germany" reflect
their mother countries in miniature,
so Budapest's topography reflects on
small scale the llneaments Of what,
as result Of the war, is literally
Little Hungary" Ancient Buda, on
the Danube's right bank, rears aloft
on rocky crests that represent the foot
hills Of Hungary's mountains, while on
the other bank modern Pest stretches
away in levels that prelude Hungary's
plains.
After leaving Budapest, the boat
| heads for that cliff-fringed section of
the Danube where it makes the big
turn westward Ahead rise the Little
Carpathians, forming the background
of busy port scene of quays, cranes,
canal boats clustered in slips-Press-
burg, the German guidebook calls it.
1t commands a splendid panorama
of the Danube's two arms encircling
the Great Schutt, which local pride
proclaims "the largest interior island
in Europe"
To Vienna and Beyond.
Beyond Bradshaw the river skirts
Hamburg, hillside picture of town
walls, curious gates, crumblng towers
1t is one of half dozen Danube towns
mentioned in the "Nibelungenlied" as
being associated with the downstream
journey of Burgundy's doomed knights.
Beyond Hamburg the Danube's
lies Vienna. Owing to postwar ext
gencies, Vienna has achieved for it's
working classes housing scheme
which, planned to embrace 10000 fam
lilies, is "futuristic" only because Of
it's novelty.
A visit to one Viennese palace of
many-the Schonbrunn of Versailles
like aspect-reveals the luxury of the
Hapsburg regime and its postwar sic
transit under Austria's democratic re-
public; for the park where Maria
Theresa once strolled and where the
Napoleon of 1905 planned campaigns
has become Sunday pleasance of
Vienna's workers.
Beyond Vienna Greifenstein's fine
old castle rises into view, as you near
the Danube's region of medieval
strongholds. Steaming past the Wa.
chau Defle's crag-set ruins, one re-
] fleets upon the formidable amount of
trade that fell to them as a result of
the Crusades.
In 1895 some 1000 craft, packed
with 10000 Palestine bound troops, de
scended the Danube. Three ensuing
Crusades took the same route. There
sprang up a river trade consisting of
westbound silks, bronZes spices. oils,
and of eastbound furs arms, and sad.
dlery. And the Danube castles took
their tolls and the flotsam rake-off OF
stranded cargoes, not to mention
piratical seizures and the enslaving of
ships crews.
Castle Aggstein, the most dreaded of
Danubian robber strongholds, must
have had a great turnover in riparian
loot and captive maidens. And Castle
Durnstein eclipsed all local records
in the capture -and-ransom trade when
its gates closed upon the royal prize
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