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In vain did I try to explain to him, that the further he 

 went eastward the more his time would require cor- 

 rection. No argument would induce him to budge, and 

 when at Vienna, I found he had risen at unearthly hours 

 and perambulated about the city alone, having persisted 

 in being guided by his watch, stoutly asserting that 



these d d foreign clocks were all wrong. Kirbell 



was very anxious also to keep a record of all the places 

 he visited, and always jotted down in his pocket-book 

 the names of the various stations we had stopped at, or 

 passed ; after some time he said, " How curious it is 

 there are so many stations of the same name!" I 

 replied that I had not observed it. He showed me his 

 record to prove he was right, and sure enough I found 

 over and over again the word " Ausgang," which he had 

 confidently entered as the name of many stations we 

 had passed on the route. 



Arrived at Vienna, and comfortably housed through 

 Sir Philip Cunliffe Owen's kind forethought, I pro- 

 ceeded to see after the arrangement of our English 

 contingent of live beasts under the shedding of the show- 

 building. A small colony of Hungarians were located 

 just outside. The cattle they exhibited were fine large 

 animals of a dark mouse-colour, rather hard in skin, 

 with great spreading horns, the cows not good milkers, 

 scarcely giving more milk than enough to keep their 

 calves. The men were clad in the picturesque costume 

 of their country, and were a fine, sturdy set of fellows. 



When the exhibition was opened, the Emperor Franz 

 Joseph first visited this Hungarian colony, and then 

 entered the general exhibition, attended by a numerous 



