86 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



vented from entering the city before the gates 

 were closed, we resolved to wait till the next 

 morning and spend the night at Adelstaetten, 

 a pretty village about a league from Salzburg, 

 and the last Bavarian post. Night was fall- 

 ing as we approached a little wood which hid 

 the village from us. There we asked a peas- 

 ant how far we had still to go, and when he 

 had answered our question he told us, evi- 

 dently with kind intention, that we should find 

 good company in the village, for a few hours 

 earlier three journeymen laborers had arrived 

 there ; and then he added that we should no 

 doubt be glad to meet comrades and have a 

 gay evening with them. We were not aston- 

 ished to be taken for workmen, since every 

 one who travels here on foot, with a knapsack 

 on his back, is understood to belong to the 

 laboring class. . . . Arrived at the village, we 

 were delighted to find that the three journey- 

 men were our traveling companions. They 

 had come, like ourselves, from Traunstein, 

 where we had missed each other in the crowd, 

 and they were going likewise to sleep at Adel- 

 staetten, to avoid the custom-house. Finally, 

 on Monday, at ten o'clock, we crossed the 

 long bridge over the Saala, between the white 

 coats with yellow trimmings on guard there. 



