NINTH DAY. 151 



had brought over the Danube in barges as soon as they heard 

 of our arrival, while the millers belonging to the floating 

 boat-mills near the island, and their entire families, were 

 streaming towards us. These people cheered us in the 

 heartiest way, and ran after us at every step, even following 

 us up to the nest ; so of course it was all up with the eagle, 

 and we did not even get a sight of it. 



As we could do nothing here, we wasted no more time, but 

 crossed the river, landed on the right bank, got into the 

 vehicles which were ready waiting, drove a little way along 

 a highroad, and then, turning in among the steep outlying 

 hills by a valley almost as narrow as a ravine, reached the 

 plateau above by an incredibly rough track, and afterwards 

 followed a remarkably well-kept avenue to one of Count 

 Chotek's farms. To the south-eas^ we saw in the distance the 

 mountains of the Fruska-Gora, separated from the perfectly 

 level plateau on which we were by a thickly wooded chain of 

 very low hills that might really be regarded as their spurs. 



Close behind the farm, where we now separated in various 

 directions, was a very pretty oak wood, the character of 

 which, as well as that of the sandy roads of this district, 

 reminded me of the neighbourhoods of Pest and Godollo. 



My brother-in-law struck off by another road to an 

 Imperial Eagle's nest, Bombelles was to have some smaller 

 ones shown to him, and I was also to pay a visit to the eyrie 

 of an Imperial Eagle. For about three quarters of an hour 

 I drove over little hills and dales, where the valleys were 

 covered by meadows, fields, and pastures, and the woods were 

 all composed of stunted oaks, while the roads, where they 

 crossed the many open tracts of country, were ornamented by 

 avenues of acacias. After some time we reached a higher 

 point, whence we could see the whole of this outlying land, 

 with the Fruska-Gora in the background, and, far away in 

 another direction, the Servian mountains, and even the 



