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CHAPTER XVI. 



Brest — First impressions — A four-legged baby — Paris — Castle Anholt — ■ 

 Prince Alfred — -His family— Our position — ^Journey to Vienna — • 

 Audience with tlie Emperor of Austria — Result — Salm in the hands 

 of his old enemies — Flight — My audience with the mother of Maxi- 

 milian — Her present— Munich — Countess Salm-Hoegstraeten — Re- 

 turn to Westphalia— Princess Minna — -Prince Alfred dangerously ill 

 — Rheingrafenstein — von Stein — Meeting with Corvins in Rorschach 

 — Castle Wiggen — The Rorschach Hill — The Lake of Constance — 

 Mrs. Raggebas — Visitors — A visit to Combe Varin — Professor 

 Edward Desor — Baron H. and wife — A Russian Baron and his 

 daughter — Prince Hohenzollern — At the Weinburg — Olf to Berlin. 



To travel alone several tliqusand miles is a very heavy task 

 for a young woman, especially if encambered by a dog, whom 

 nobody would any longer call a little dog, and which, in fact, 

 weighed nearly twenty pounds and had distressingly long legs. 

 Little children are great encumbrances in travelling, but they 

 are at least looked upon as pardonable nuisances ; whilst a dog 

 is persecuted by railway and diligence conductors, and even 

 captains of steamers, with a zeal approaching fanaticism. A 

 baby may be shown openly — and this is rather the pleasant 

 side of baby transportation — conductors cannot object ; whilst 

 a dog must be carefully concealed from the lynx eyes of prying 

 conductors, wljo will not always be appeased by pleading 

 words, even if accompanied by more persuasive silver. If 

 Jimmy could write his memoirs his book would be read with 

 great sympathy, not only by the whole canine tribe, but also 

 by all ladies who cherish a four-legged pet. 



New Year's Day on board the ' Ville de Paris ' was a most 

 miserable day, for the weather was extremely rough and every 

 body was sea-sick, myself and Jimmy included. 



We arrived on January 6, 1868, in Brest; where I went to 



