K> M. Beudant's Travels in Hungary. 



longed to them, as they alleged. For this violation of their 

 rights, one fine day in the year 1818, they proceeded to bring 

 away the whole herd to their own village. Then the inhabitants 

 of Benye, with the judge at their head, came, vi et armix, to 

 reclaim possession. A bloody contest ensued, wherein several 

 individuals were killed, and a" number of women and children 

 wounded. The people took back their cattle in triumph, but 

 eventually it will prove a serious matter to them and to the 

 judge. Here M. de Szirmay presented me to the baron Malony, 

 who politely invited me to dinner. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



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MOUNTAINS OF VIHERLET. 



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. On quitting Uj Hely I proceeded next for the Udva, near 

 Komona, where M. de Szirmay resided occasionally. At La- 

 zony 1 stopped a little at the house of M. Paul Szirmay, where 

 the Abbe Este met me by appointment. My reception here 

 was most agreeable, and I took leave with regret, the next day 

 the Abbe Este accompanied me to Udva, and afterwards to 

 Munkacs. On the summit of a mountain we passed by the 

 old castle of Barks, and found the town of Homona, lying in 

 a sort of basin, surrounded with hills of freestone. These 

 connect with the mountains that form the boundaries of Hun- 

 gary and Galicia. The village of Udva is at a little distance 

 among the hills. 



I left Udva early the next morning, on a visit to the moun- 

 tains of Vihorlet ; at Dluha I took up M. Alex. Szirmay, who 

 would acccompany me in this excursion. Leaving Dluha we came 

 to a forge, where men were at work on different minerals, the 

 most valuable of which was carbonated iron, from Ostrosznie- 

 sa; its colour was a light grey, with a tinge of yellow. Here 

 were also minerals from Varano, much mixed with earth, and 

 in the middle of them concreted parts of hydrated iron. I 

 surveyed the whole establishment, and took notes of the dif- 

 ferent minerals that were lying in heaps about it. 



Our course was then directed for the rock of Szinna, which 

 may be discerned at a very great distance. Our guides insist- 

 ed that it would require tour hours to reach the summit, but 

 being inured to the ascent of mountains I judged otherwise; 

 in fact, we arrived there in a hour and a half. All these moun- 

 tains are covered with thick forests, through which now and 



