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FIFTEENTH DAY. 
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Tax sun was already shining pleasantly into our cabins when — 
we awoke, and found to our great astonishment that the 
steamer was at a standstill, and that we were quietly lying at 
the quay of Pest, just at the very place below the suspension 
bridge from which we had set off a fortnight ago. When 
breakfast was over we went on deck to admire this beautiful 
town, which looked very fine in the morning sunlight, and 
then gave our people their final orders ; for the steamer, with 
all our effects, skins, and tolerably large menagerie, was to. 
go on to Vienna in order to facilitate their transport. 
When all was in order we left the vessel, and I confess 
that it was not without a twinge of regret that I took leave of 
this brave craft which had done us such good service, and on 
which we had spent so many pleasant hours. 
From the landing-place we drove to the station, where, to 
our great delight, we found Count Rudolf Chotek, the 
amiable proprietor of the Fruska-Gora. He was on his way 
to his other estates in the north-eastern part of Hungary, so 
we travelled together, and the journey passed quickly and 
pleasantly except for the great heat. 
We had a good deal of talk about the incidents of the 
expedition, with which we had certainly reason to be well 
satisfied, seeing what we had accomplished in so short a 
time. 
The proceeds of the journey were :— 
