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SECOND DAY. 
enthusiasm for a sailor’s life, to which 1 myself openly 
contess. 
Our siesta did not last long, for the indefatigable Brehm 
reminded us of work, and Homeyer and I followed him to 
the fore part of the vessel. All the birds we had killed were 
measured, and their dimensions and colours entered in 
accurately kept books. Then our diaries had to be written 
up, and the notes which we had collected interchanged. 
Hodek took possession of the spoils to prepare them with the 
help of his son. The three Night Herons were skinned for 
the collection, but only the crests of the eight Grey Herons 
and the eight Cormorants were kept; while the Hooded 
Crow, Rook, Wryneck, Reed-Warblers, and Grasshopper- 
Warblers, which had all been brouglit back, chiefly for the 
sake of their measurements, were partly disposed of, feathers 
and all, by my Eagle-Owl, and partly found their way to the 
skinning table. 
When our work was quite finished, we paced the deck, 
watching the changing landscapes. The further south we 
went the more the character of the country altered; and in 
order that the reader may have an idea of the region to 
which he must fancy himself transported, | will name some 
of the villages we passed, and which may be found in any map 
of Hungary. I remember that we ran by a good many of 
them, most of which lay on the right bank, for there the 
immediate neighbourhood of the river was not made impass- 
able by a belt of “auen” or by marshes, but a low chain of 
hills descended to the water’s edge in slopes both gentle and 
abrupt, and sometimes even in precipitous walls of earth. 
First we came to Duna-Pentele, then to Duna-l6ldvar and 
Paks. As well as we could see from a distance, all these 
villages were of the true Hungarian type. Long rows of low 
straw-thatched houses, broad streets full of borse-troughs, 
high draw-wells, vegetable gardens trailing off into the sand, 
