LETTER XXXIV 



Journey to Bremen Fog in Channel The Aller Bremen 

 Country in the vicinity Old bed of the Weser Birds 

 Peasants' Houses Storks Water Supply of Teasels Toads 

 Change of Colour of Toads Toads and Thrushes Old 

 Church at North Stoke : Inside Sundials Mural Decora- 

 tions Norman Chain-mail Decoration. 



\\thjuly 1892. 



DEAR MARCO I have just returned from 

 a short visit to Bremen, where I have placed 

 my second boy, Jack, to learn German and 

 business ways. I went over there, via South- 

 ampton, in the North German steamship 

 Aller, a large Atlantic boat. We were long 

 in crossing, two whole days, owing to 

 fog, which, soon after starting, came on very 

 densely. We could only creep along, sound- 

 ing the fog-horn every three minutes ; and, as 

 it was, we narrowly escaped running down a 

 small schooner in the channel. Our engines 



