320 ARE PUT IN QUARANTINE. 



stemming, the bargemen pulling with all their 

 might athwart the current in order to get us into 

 smooth water before we gained such an impetus 

 as to be carried back into the whirlpool of the 

 Iron Gates just below us. We landed at Alt- 

 Orsova about half-past two o'clock, having been 

 near ten hours making a distance of fifteen miles. 

 Our baggage was immediately placed in bullock- 

 carts, and we ourselves accompanied it, walking 

 like prisoners of war under a strong guard of Au- 

 strian soldiers to the lazaretto of Schuppaneck, 

 which is about one and a half miles distant from 

 the village where we landed. 



Here we were received by the head of the la- 

 zaretto, who, after examining our passports, told 

 us off by fours to different houses, assigning a 

 guardian to each house. It so happened that four 

 of us were, apparently by accident, "chummed " 

 together, and that we were the very four most 

 likely to agree well amongst ourselves. 



I can imagine no more disagreeable situation 

 than the being shut up for ten days or more in 

 two rooms, with any thing but very good-tempered 

 and accommodating companions. One disagree- 

 able person will render a quarantine life horrible ; 



