Kctschcmet. 
328 FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE BANNAT, 
CHAP, here was the best that we had seen, and the 
.— V — ' the inn good ; but the inhabitants are rude and 
insolent to strangers. As soon as we began 
to perceive that this behaviour was charac- 
teristic of the people, we tried the experiment 
of treating them in their own way ; which in- 
variably made them become more civil. The 
inn at Ketschemet, called the Buck, was tolerably 
clean. Great preparations were now making, 
in all parts of this country, for their fairs ; of 
which they have one nearly every week at 
Ketschemet, during the summer. To these fairs 
resort merchants from distant parts of Europe. 
One of them, a merchant from Trieste, arrived 
with a fine lady, who was his wife, and took 
possession of the room next to ours. The 
whole of his merchandize consisted in Saints : he 
had brought a sufficient cargo to supply all the 
fairs in Hungary. White Tokay sold here for 
two florins and a half the bottle. The red wine 
of Buda is clear, strong, and of a good flavour ; 
but of a heating and astringent property. Hi- 
therto we had found all the district we had 
passed through inhabited by a Walaehian pea- 
santry, having seen few genuine Hungarians. 
The JValachians of the Bannat bear a very bad 
character; and perhaps many of the offences 
attributed to the Gipsies may be due to 
