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and the same strong impression received that the race of men from the 

 Neckar to the Danube must be the happiest population on earth ! But if 

 the Wanderlust grips a man, he runs grave risk of never setthng down 

 again in this Hfe ; it is one of the fascinating features of Galton's 

 career, that with all the means and tastes to become a wanderer, he yet 

 settled down — after fourteen years — to steady scientific work. Might 

 it not well have been a case of : 



" What's become of Waring 

 Since he gave us all the slip. 

 Chose land-travel or seafaring. 

 Boots and chest or staff and scrip, 

 Rather than pace up and down 

 Any longer London town?'' 



From Buda Pest Francis Galton writes to his father for a remittance 

 to place him on the safe side on his journey home : 



"Would you therefore send me to Trieste £15 ; if the correct way of sending it 

 be in letters of credit please make them payable at several of the places about there, 

 Venice especially. Should you, however, have disinherited me or forbidden my reading 

 mathematics or some equally severe punishment, then please send duplicates of that 

 letter to Malta, Syra, Athens etc., etc., because after tliat I have read one of them 

 I shall be sure not to enquire after the others, and they will so amuse the postmasters. 

 Well here I am in the most Hungarian town of Hungary, and already fully entitled to 

 the Travellers' Club. There is such a capital specimen of an Hungarian opposite that 

 I must scetch [sic .'] him. The hair and mustachios are no exaggeration [sketch of the 

 HungariaTi]. I never fully understood what a hot day was till I came here, in truth 

 sight seeing opens the mind and the perspiratory pores also. The water that I drink 

 oozes through as fast as through a patent filtering machine. I must really invest in a 

 parasol to-day, the heat at midday is absolutely, awful. This morning I actually saw 

 a live cow not half-roaHed, but really and truly quite dun. I have got a mosquito net 

 of which I shall find the full benefit, shortly, about Skela Gladova (pronounced Skela 

 GladOvS). A water coat pea-coat is the greatest comfort imaginable. Yesterday in a 

 storm of rain on the river, which by the bye was much more violent than any Scotch 

 storms, and which looked just as in the scetch [«ic.'], I coolly posted myself on the top of 

 the paddle box, looking quietly and comfortably with my hands in my pocket at the 

 poor miserable-looking pa.ssengers for whom there was not room in the cjibin and who 

 umbrellas being useless, posted themselves as well as they could under the tarpaulin, 

 their exposed parts suifering considerably. I was considered a maniac or something 

 like it, but two or three Newfoundland-dog-like shakes made my peacoat lialf dry and 



not an atom of rain had gone through it In 11 days more I am in Istamboul, 



hurrah ! I remember a bit of advice of Darwin's when I was climbing up a ladder to the 

 cistern in the yard at the Larches, — not to look down, but only upwards and .see what 

 was left to be climbed ; just so with my present tour. I fancy myself not much farther 

 than Belgium, quite at home and only calculate what J have to do." 



