Xll CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Therapia — Unkiar Skelessi — Fire — Sultan Mahmoud — Constanti- 

 nople intolerable as a permanent residence — Ferdinando Primo 

 steam-vessel — Motley assemblage on board — Anecdote of a 

 plum-pudding — Varna — Horse's antipathy to medicine — Works 

 of Varna — Siege in 1829 — Dismay of a Swiss at missing his 

 way Page 264 



CHAPTER XIV, 



Mouths of the Danube — Anecdote of a daring pilot — Musquitoes 

 — Bavarian doctor's infallible remedy proved useless — Ismail 

 — Tuldcha— Galatz — Moldavians — Brahilow — Wallachian sol- 

 dier's dress — Galatea steamer — Silistria — Rustchuch — Nico- 

 polis — Sigismund and Bajazet — Iron Cage — Servia — Observa- 

 tions — Eccentric costume of washerwomen Page 283 



CHAPTER XV. 



Trajan's bridge — Skela Gladova — Passage of rapids — Alt Orsova 

 — Quarantine — Mehadia — Miseries of a German wagen — Hun- 

 garian peasant's dress — Temesvar — Administration of justice — 

 Amusing quarrel — Hungarian inns — Arrive at Pest — Conclu- 

 sion ^ 313 



APPENDIX Page 343 



