EXTRACTS 
FROM 
‘A JOURNEY IN THE EAST’* 
Own the 9th of February, 1881, a cold winter’s day, a small 
but enterprising party of travellers started. It consisted of 
my uncle the Grand Duke of Tuscany, General Count 
Waldburg, Abbot Mayer the Court Chaplain, Major von 
Eschenbacher, Count Josef Hoyos, the painter Pausinger, and 
myself, 
In Miramar our old friend the ship of the same name was 
awaiting us, with Captain Rédiger, L.S., and Lieutenants 
Count Chorinsky, Hahn, Sachs, and Resniéek, and also our 
travelling physician, Doctor Hirsch. 
Lissa was passed on Feb. 11th, and on the 12th the vessel 
reached Corfu, where we did not land on account of the 
prevalence of confluent smallpox in the island, but steamed 
further on to the bay of Kardaki, which we intended to 
explore in our boats. 
There a few herons, some large and small cormorants, and 
‘various ducks and divers took wing as soon as we tried to get 
* ‘Eine Orient Reise,’ pub. Vienna, 1884. 
