208 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1839, 
would educate them in this peripatetic way. But now 
to bed. 
Thursday evening, May 16... . We are to start 
at nine o’clock. The rain is over, but it is still cloudy. 
I have been for some days in Austrian dominions, but 
I wish to be in Austria itself. It cleared up a little 
just at sunset, and gave, me from the deck of the ves- 
sel, a most beautiful view of the town and harbor, with 
hundreds of gondolas gliding swiftly through the 
water in every direction. . .. 
Triest, Saturday evening, May 18, 1859. 
As misfortunes never come single, I found this morn- 
ing that our places were not secured in the mail-coach 
for Monday. The fellow who was to arrange the 
business found, after getting our passports in order, 
that there was only one place left, and supposing that 
we were certainly to go together, did not secure that. 
It was immediately arranged between us that I was to 
have the place, but on arriving at the office I had the 
mortification to find it already taken. For an hour or 
so we made various plans, negotiated with a vetturino, 
but were stopped by the information we received, that 
they would be five days on the road to Gratz, from 
where to Vienna it would require at least two days 
more by the same kind of conveyance, or twenty-seven 
hours in the mail-coach if we could get a place in it. 
We found that the quickest way left for us was to 
take places for Tuesday by the mail, and go on Mon- 
day by a private conveyance to Adelsberg, as we had 
intended, where we shall have a day longer than we 
desire ; and these places we were fortunate enough to 
secure. So I cannot expect to reach Vienna before 
Friday morning of next week! I had hoped to reach 
that place by the twentieth. 
