10 TKAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



Slavs, Germans, and Jews. I learnt subsequently 

 that the numbers in the town had been increased 

 within the last week by not less than 10,000 souls. 

 The inhabitants of the drowned villages and outlying 

 hamlets had come into the town for shelter. 



My friend mentioned that his father, who had taken 

 part in the war of Hungarian independence, had spent 

 six weeks at Szegedin in 1849, when the Eevolution- 

 ary Government retreated from Buda-Pesth and made 

 this place the seat of the National Assembly. General 

 Perczel, with 60,000 men, was stationed here, but 

 there was no question of making a stand at Szegedin. 

 These Avere the closing scenes of that noble struggle 

 the day of Yilagos was nigh at hand, the saddest 

 scene in all the long tragedy of Hungarian history. 



But no more conversation or reminiscences now, for 

 the train has arrived at the station of Felegyhaza, and 

 we are all up and stirring. At this place we found 

 a special train waiting to convey ourselves and our 

 baggage down to the point of the railway where the 

 lines ran into the water, some four miles further on. 

 On leaving Felegyhaza the floods were on both sides 

 of the railway embankment, and we soon came to the 

 spot where the train could go no further in fact, the 

 wheels of the locomotive were already in water. It 

 was " Water, water everywhere " it might have 

 been the old prehistoric sea that we looked upon, 

 stretching away far as the eye could reach. In less 

 than half an hour everything was ready, the boats 



