SIXTH DAY. 105 
As evening advanced, the “auen’’ disappeared more and 
more, even from the left side of the river, and low banks with 
occasional meadows and pastures came into view, while before 
us lay the sea-like expanse of the great Hungarian plain. 
During this part of the journey we saw but little of orni- 
thological interest; the Black Kites, and the Purple and 
Grey Herons so often mentioned, with two or three kinds of 
Ducks, a few Terns, and other equally common birds flew 
over our vessel. We also noticed more Cormorants fishing 
than we had met with on the whole stretch of the river, either 
above or below Adony. 
Towards evening the storm had altogether passed over, and 
though the thunder was still rolling in the east, the clouds 
in the west broke up, the disk of the sun showed itself 
just before it vanished behind the range of the Slavonian 
heights, and we saw a splendid effect. To our right the hills 
were lit up with the most brilliant red, like the Alpine glow 
of our Lower Austrian mountains, on our left the gilded 
foliage of the few isolated little “au” woods was quivering 
in the last evening breeze, while the clouds assumed a purple- 
red splendour, and mirrored their colours in the waters of the 
Danube. 
The sun sank slowly in a blaze of light, the ruddy glow 
lingering long above the western hills. Night was falling, 
the birds were flying to their roosting-places, and only the 
storks and herons were winging their way towards the inland 
marshes to begin their nocturnal: hunts. 
Although we had, thanks to the extraordinary speed of our 
steamer, traversed such a great stretch of the river in so short 
a time, it would nevertheless have been impossible to reach 
Gerevig by the evening ; so we were obliged to anchor, and pass 
the night at the little village of Gombos. Just before it had 
got quite dark we had seen far away, in a southerly direction, 
the heights of the Fruska-Gora mountains, so celebrated for 
