( 236 ) 



AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



(See Plan, p. 76.) 



ARTHUR DIOSY, ESQ., Honorary Commissioner, Linaro Lodge, 7 Lansdowne Road 

 Kensington Park, W. 



DIVISION XXI. 



I. DI6SY, ARTHUR, Honorary Commissioner, Linaro Lodge, 7 Lansdowne 

 Road, Kensington Park, W. A Glass Case, containing : (1) Tinder-pouch (" Kova-Zacskd " 

 in the Magyar language), used by Hungarian Fishermen (Inland Fisheries). The pouch 

 is of white leather, elaborately embroidered in the national colours (red, white, and green), 

 with plaited thongs to pass through the sash or girdle. To these are attached a heart- 

 shaped steel and a pipe-cleaner of wire. The pouch contains two sorts of tinder (Magyar, 

 " Kova ") of dried fungus, and a piece of flint. By its use the Hungarian Fishermen 

 can strike a light in the most stormy weather. (2) Two Fishermen's Knives (Magyar, 

 "Bicsak"). Blades almost triangular, with clasp. The handles of roughly- stained 

 wood, red and yellow. Sold by Slovak hawkers from Northern Hungary for about a 

 halfpenny each. (3) Hungarian Fisherman's Knife and Fork, in case covered with 

 leather, which is worn in the high boot. The handles of knife and fork (two-pronged) are 

 inlaid with white metal on brown wood. (Magyar name of the knife, fork, and case, " Halasz- 

 Etszer "). (4) Three Hungarian Fishermen's Pipes (Magyar, " Pipa" ). One of red clay with 

 tin cover, one of dark mottled clay with silver cover, and one of earthenware, representing a 

 cob of Mai'ze, with silver cover. The stems of all are of cherry-wood, the mouthpieces of 

 black horn. The first kind is used by the fishermen of Lower Hungary (banks of the Lower 

 Danube), and is made at.Debreczin, the second, from Selmecz (Schemnitz), is used by the 

 fishermen of the North, and the third, from Budapest, by the fishermen in the neighbour- 

 hood of the capital, on the Danube. All Hungarian and Austrian fishermen are great 

 smokers. The covers to the pipes are rendered necessary by the ever-present danger of fire 

 amongst a population living chiefly in wooden houses (thatched over), or in cabins of 

 reeds. (5) Pipe ("Pfeife") of Austrian Fisherman, from the Lake District of the Tyrol 

 and Upper Austria. "Wooden bowl, lined with tin, brass cover, cherry-wood stem, black horn 

 mouthpiece. Price, in the country, about one shilling and twopence. (6) Pipe of Styrian 

 Fisherman of the latter half of the 18th century. The bowl of wood, inlaid with mother-of- 

 pearl, curious brass wire cover, mouthpiece of black horn. (7) A Figure, about the size of a 

 child of four years old, completely dressed as a Hungarian Fisherman, in the Costume worn in 

 the districts along the banks of the Danube (Magyar, " Duna ") the Theisz (Magyar, " Tisza "), 

 and the Lake Balaton (called on English maps " the Platten Sea or Lake "). The costume 

 consists of a white linen shirt (Magyar, " Ing ") with very wide open sleeves, very wide white 

 linen drawers (Magyar, "Gattya"), high black boots (Magyar, "Csizsma"), and around, 

 wide-brimmed soft hat (" Magyar, " Kalap ") of black felt, in the band of which a feather and 

 a pipe are generally stuck. The small waistcoat of red or blue cloth, richly braided with 

 gold, is only worn on holidays, when the three handkerchiefs of the national colours are tied 

 to the girdle. The cloak (Magyar, " Sziir ") of white cloth, lined red and richly embroidered 

 with flowers in worsted, is always worn thrown on the left shoulder, leaving the right arm 

 free. In winter it is replaced by a cloak of sheepskin, called " Bunda." The hair is worn 

 long, and sometimes plaited. The moustache is always worn. The Fishermen are generally 

 tall, slim, swarthy, with small hands and feet for their stature, aquiline noses, high cheek- 

 bones, and a very erect bearing. They are muscularly strong, and possess great powers of 

 endurance. 



-AJNJL>13Jbfc0:iN, .AJBBOT'J:., tind AJVDISJEfcSOIV, 



37, Queen Victoria Street, London, England. 



Copie den scbriftliohen ZETTGNISSES des Herrn Superintendent KITTLE. 



Bureau dea Yerwaltars des Metroixilitan Polizei-Districto, 



4 Whitehall H/vce, S.W., 21. JM 18. 

 NEUE-MUSTER-MAENTEL. 

 Auszug des Berlchta der Snperfntendenten uber die Muster Miintol, welche, am 7. Januar 1868, an die 



A, P., C, K, N mid R Divisionen ausgetheilt wurden. 



Die Superintendenten melden, rfass die fraglichen Mantel dem aliein Muster hedentend vorznziehen Rind, tadein 

 le sich im Gebrauch gut gehalten baben, wasserdicht eind, tmd beim Znsammenfalten nicht brechen. Diewelben Bind 

 bei der R Division nocb in gnten Zu'tand, und ist die Mannschaft der Meinung, dass dieselben bei weitera die beaten 

 Mantel eind, wekhe Jemah zum Di. nst augegeben wurden. Die B Division btrachten No. 2 Muster all etwM bessdr 

 vU No. 1. (G*>.) TflOi. ElTTLK, Superinttndt*!. 



