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ship. As our number of passengers increased at every 

 station, it became necessary to add another locomotive at 

 Angermiinde. Our train had eighteen passenger coaches, 

 holding in all about eight hundred people, i. e., nearly 

 fifty in each car. We reached Berlin at last. It was just 

 four o'clock in the afternoon when we steamed into 

 Grande Station near the Oranienburg gate (named after 

 Prince William of Orange). Xo sooner had the train come 

 to a standstill than a sentry from the Second Guard's 

 Regiment stationed himself at every car, while some 

 twenty constables started to examine the passes, which 

 took much less time than I had thought. This done, ev- 

 ery one of us received a stamped ticket, which we handed 

 to the gate keeper.* 



To identify and obtain our baggage took about half an 

 hour, after which we started for our respective lodgings. 

 Grtinhagen has a brother living in Kochstrasse and Olias 

 and I went to find the ''German House" in Kloster- 

 strasse, which we reached about five o'clock. As neither 

 of us was acquainted with the city, we were at a loss to 

 devise a plan for the evening, therefore I resolved to de- 

 liver a letter, which Johanna Kuhnast asked me to take 

 to Rudolph Wilzeck — Kommandantenstrasse. 



Olias accompanied me to that place. Utterly ignorant 

 of the location of the streets of Berlin, we went bravely 

 out to discover the place of our destination. We 

 tramped through Spandauer and Konigsstrasse, Molken- 

 markt, Gertrudenstr., Spittelmarkt, Leipzigerstr., Don- 

 hofsplatz until we finally drifted into Kommandantenstr., 

 at the extreme end of which said dwelling was to be 

 found. When we reached the place, the bird had flown, 

 having left the city, bound for East Prussia, a few days 

 previously. As soon as we had recovered from our disap- 

 pointment Olias coaxed me to take a stroll through the 

 "Thiergarten." The straight-laid streets of this part of 

 Berlin, called Frederic's town, make it easy for a stranger 

 to find his way. We returned partly by the same route 



*Remember. kind reader, that this took place more than fifty 

 years ago. Times have changed since then. — Transl. 



