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CHAPTER XIV. 



MOUTHS OF THE DANUBE — ANECDOTE OF A DARING PILOT 



MUSaUITOS BAVARIAN DOCTOR's INFALLIBLE REMEDY 



PROVED USELESS ISMAIL TULDCHA GALATZ MOLDA- 

 VIANS BRAHILOW WALLACHIAN SOLDIER's DRESS '* GA- 

 LATEA " STEAMER SILISTRIA RUSTCHUCK NICOPOLIS 



SIGISMUND AND BAJAZET IRON CAGE SERVIA OBSERVA- 

 TIONS ECCENTRIC COSTUME OF WASHERWOMEN. 



At an early hour in the morning, after leaving 

 Varna, we entered the Danube by the Sulina 

 mouth. This, the only navigable entrance to a 

 magnificent river, which runs so many hundred 

 miles through central Europe, is certainly not 

 more than three hundred yards in width. The 

 banks on either side are flat and uninteresting, 

 being an entire marsh, of the most disagreeable 

 appearance and unhealthy description. Scarcely 

 had we entered, when a Russian guard-boat re- 

 minded us that we had crossed the Russian fron- 

 tier ; and this, with the guard-houses at regular 

 distances, the chains of sentries lining the banks 

 of the river on both sides, dragoon-looking fel- 



