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we did. Besides Captain Spence, of the 60th 

 Rifles, and myself, there were Mr. George Parker, 

 formerly of the 15th Foot, who was travel- 

 ling for health and amusement, and Mr. Frederick 

 Townsend, of New York, a young American sent 

 to Europe to see a little of the Old World. This 

 was my first intimate acquaintance with an Ame- 

 rican, and I must pay him the compliment of 

 saying I shall be extremely happy to meet him 

 again in any part of the world, and if it should 

 be our fate to have to undergo another period of 

 imprisonment together, to have him as my com- 

 panion. I must not omit to make mention of 

 my friend Lasar, our guardian, whom I can re- 

 commend to any one taking the Danube trip. 

 He is a most willing, excellent fellow, and a 

 capital servant. Nothing ever went wrong with 

 him, nothing ever put him out of humour. He 

 had always the same good-humoured counte- 

 nance, whether he was flirting with the washer- 

 woman or walking at the rate of five miles an 

 hour on a hot summer's day behind us, when we 

 took a mad freak into our heads to see how fast 

 we could loalk round and round the building. 

 On the 25th June, we were released early in 



