FIFTH DAY. 



IT was about five o'clock in the morning when we left our 

 cabins and went on deck. The sun was shining with its full 

 vigour, warm and enlivening, the sky was cloudless, and the 

 air combined the refreshing savour of spring with the 

 coolness due to the rain of yesterday. How different one 

 feels when the atmosphere is pure and invigorating, and not 

 saturated with the fever-generating exhalations and heavy 

 vapours of the marshes ! "We had now learnt to value every 

 fresh clear morning in these districts, where the oppressive 

 debilitating air which generally prevails exercises such an 

 unpleasant effect on any one who lives either in the Alps or 

 the lower mountains, the hilly country, or even on the 

 elevated plains. 



Breakfast was quickly disposed of, our shooting-gear was 

 packed, and we set out towards fresh adventures in high 

 spirits, for this promised to be an exceedingly interesting and 

 delightful day, as we were to quit the " auen " and shoot 

 through a wood lying pretty far inland. 



Leaving the steamer, we all got into one boat and rowed 

 along a canal-like arm of the river, which branched off from 

 the right bank a little way above the fishing-settlement, and 

 soon reached a bridge which sprang from high embankments 

 and spanned the arm. There we stopped and went ashore, Herr 

 Eampelt receiving us and accompanying us to the well-horsed 

 private carriages which were standing on the embankment, 

 and which had been put at our disposal for the entire day. 



Without mentioning it as anything exceptional, this great 

 kindness and also the whole arrangements for the day showed 



