MY SECOND VISIT TO THE ENGADINE. 3 



tliey had no wish to be again in the same predicament, but 

 we quite satisfied ourselves before we left Frankfort that the 

 notion of divisions in Germany existed only in the brains of 

 dreamers. 



On Sunday (July 17th) at 5 a.m. we saw the regiment 

 quartered in the barracks opposite the *' Romischer Kaiser" 

 march off to the railway station, and we heard in the even- 

 ing that all the troops had left Fi-ankfort for the frontier. 

 We considered it problematical whether on the Monday we 

 should be able to get by the *' Badische Eisenbahn" from 

 Frankfort to Basle, but we resolved to try, and were only 

 inconvenienced by the lai'ge number of fellow-travellers in a 

 southerly direction, who went in the same train. The con- 

 fusion at the Frankfort station, where Hauptmann Lucas von 

 Heyden rendered us most essential aid, for wiiich we felt 

 most thankful, was only a small foretaste of the confusion 

 that awaited us at Basle ; there our luggage was not obtain- 

 able till the next morning, and the hotels being all full, we 

 had to sleep where we could. 



The next day (the 19th) we left Basle (a very Babel for 

 the time) and pushed on to Chur, where I found letters from 

 Professor Hering and Dr. Schleich of Stettin, and from 

 Herr Hartmann of Munich. The Stettin entomolooists 



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had passed through Chur on the 9th on their way to Sama- 

 den; Herr Hartmann found himself too much occupied to 

 leave home, but he assured me I should find Herr Pfaffen- 

 zeller, of Munich, at Samaden. 



' I wrote a line to my Stettin friends to announce my arrival 

 at Chur, and to say that I was going first to Maria, but that 

 after a fev/ days' stay there I proposed to spend a day or two 

 at Samaden. 



On the evening of Thursday (July 21st) we arrived at 

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