4 TRAVEL, ADVENTUEE, AND SPORT. 



work immediately to give us every possible assistance ; 

 but we were in a difficulty about getting the boats 

 conveyed from the Danube to the railway station, 

 \vhich is a long way from the river. This being 

 Sunday afternoon, everything was shut, and we could 

 get no men, much less obtain conveyances to transport 

 the boats, which, it may be remarked, were heavy 

 river-boats. So in the end we gave orders for these 

 to follow us by a later train. As it turned out, we 

 requisitioned fourteen of the pleasure-boats on the 

 lake in the Stadtwaldchen, which is not far from the 

 railway station. Our small corps of six now separated, 

 half were sent round the town to enlist friends, the 

 others being left to busy themselves about the neces- 

 sary preparations for getting together the live-saving 

 apparatus, torches, and other things requisite for the 

 possible emergency. We had settled to meet at the 

 Eedoute by eight that night for final arrangements 

 before starting by the ten o'clock train for Felegyhaza. 

 By the evening the volunteer corps had increased to 

 fourteen in number, but what with one thing and 

 another we found it difficult to get everything settled 

 in time ; in fact we only got off by a later train, and 

 did not arrive at Felegyhaza before eleven o'clock on 

 the morning of the 10th of March. 



We had, of course, started from Buda-Pesth in the 

 dark, and when daylight dawned we found ourselves 

 travelling over the vast plain or alfold which is the 

 peculiar feature of Hungarian geography. Eoughly 



