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whereas, if all agree well together, the time is not 

 nearly so dismal a one as persons who have never 

 tried it imagine it to be. 



Immediately after we were lodged in our house, 

 our guardian, a very ugly, but good-natured Ger- 

 man boy, who spoke not a syllable of any known 

 language except German and Hungarian, re- 

 quested us to turn every single article out of our 

 bags and portmanteaux, and then proceeded to 

 make an inventory of them. We were never, 

 during our whole stay in quarantine, allowed to 

 pack them up again, but they were carefully car- 

 ried out, and put in the sun every day for several 

 hours. This said inventory was afterwards fairly 

 written out, and numbered, and examined with 

 our passports, so that any police officer, in any 

 part of the Austrian territories, might, at any 

 moment, obtain the important and gratifying in- 

 formation of the exact number of articles of 

 wearing apparel any one of us was possessed 

 of. This inventory is taken, it is said, to pre- 

 vent robbery in case of the person dying in 

 quarantine. 



• Our period of quarantine, like ship-board and 

 all similar confinements, passed yviih astonishing 

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