324' STRICTNESS OF THE POLICE. 



the morning by the little doctor of the establish- 

 ment, who announced to us our free pratique by 

 shaking hands with each. We had thus been 

 ten whole days, or, more properly speaking, ten 

 nights in quarantine, and thus we became in pra- 

 tique with all Europe. What a difference it 

 would have made had I returned to Corfu by the 

 usual route of Lyra and Athens ! Our servant Gio- 

 vanni, whom we sent back from Constantinople 

 that way, had thirteen days' quarantine at Lyra, 

 to put him in pratique with Corfu only, and a 

 person wishing to enter the civilized part of Eu- 

 rope from Corfu, has to undergo an additional 

 quarantine of ten days at Trieste, thus making it 

 twenty-three days' quarantine from Constantino- 

 ple to Vienna, via Trieste, and only ten days by 

 the Danube route. 



A dollar to the clerk at the custom-house, who 

 came to examine our luggage, got over every dif- 

 ficulty, and we were not even obliged to go 

 through the ceremony of opening our bags. Our 

 books, however, which we had been cautioned to 

 leave out, were carefully packed up in separate 

 parcels, and sealed with a leaden seal to prevent 

 their being opened until our arrival at Vienna. 



