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with only a rope for a bridle. He then spoke to the 

 horses in an encouraging tone, whipped them up, 

 and galloped away in utter disregard of our suffer- 

 ings, and in apparent unconsciousness of our 

 existence, or that attached to his team of horses 

 was a fragile contrivance containing half-a-dozen 

 persons whom his caprice obliged to hold on 

 with chattering teeth, and wellnigh dislocated 

 bones, wishing themselves anywhere but in a 

 Hungarian wagen. 



From Temesvar to Pest, we were three days, 

 having made an arrangement with a post-master 

 for a sort of vetturino carriage and horses for that 

 purpose. In addition to our party of four, which 

 I have mentioned as having been in the same 

 house in the lazaretto, there were, as passengers 

 in the wagen, an Italian and a German, and 

 during our journey a quarrel which took place 

 between these two worthies afforded us con- 

 siderable amusement. Why they quarrelled is 

 known only to themselves ; we had observed that 

 their intimacy had rather diminished since we had 

 left the quarantine, and on one occasion, I over- 

 heard them privately complimenting each other 

 with some rather opprobrious epithets ; but the 



