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journey ; and as soon as we had lunched, measured the slain 
birds, and finished our interchange of notes, we went on deck 
and there remained almost throughout the rest of the passage. 
First we ran through the now pretty familiar stretch of 
the river from the woods below Mohacs down to Apatin. In 
the early part of the afternoon the sultriness was rather op- 
pressive, the great heat indicating the approach of another 
storm, while heavy clouds were towering up in the west, and we 
already heard, though indistinctly, the rumbling of the thunder. 
Passing by Apatin without stopping, we went on towards 
Draueck ; the intermediate “ auen,” whose inner parts we now 
had a pretty fair knowledge of, but which we had not yet seen 
from the main stream, affording some wonderfully picturesque 
views, especially the last woods just before the Hullo marsh. 
The narrow belt of trees which divides this huge swamp from 
the Danube, and through which we could occasionally get a 
good glimpse of the mountains to the west and of broad 
sheets of water, also interested us much; and we determined 
to devote an entire morning to this marsh on our way back 
from Slavonia in a week’s time. 
About five o’clock in the afternoon we reached Draueck, 
one of the grandest and most beautiful spots I have ever 
seen; for the dark lofty “au” woods that run along both 
banks are entirely composed of high trees, and have a 
strikingly imposing character. Here the Drave, an exceed- 
ingly large stream, comes inat right angles to join the Danube, 
and the united streams flow onward in a direct continuation 
of the course of the former river. 
We also had the good fortune to see an exceedingly beau- 
tiful natural spectacle just at the junction of the rivers, for the 
long-expected storm now burst with full force. A furious 
gale roared through the woods, hurling the branches from the 
trees, the waves where the two streams met were lashed by 
the wind, and rose high up against the steamer, the thunder 
