Round About the Carpathians

riding tour-An afternoon nap and its consequences-Copper mines-Self

hammer. The mines in the Banat were perhaps worked earlier than any other in this part of Europe. The minerals of the

glad to escape the "carts of the country," which, notwithstanding the atrocious roads, are the usual mode of conveyance. It had always been my intention to ride about the country,

. It is of importance to have the straps of your saddle-bags very strongly attached. It is not enough that they are sewn an inch into the bag, they should extend down the sides; for want of this I had to repair mine several

o minutes and a half; of its own self-consciousness, the sauce-pan could evolve into a frying-pan, besides other adaptations, including space for a Russian lamp-a vessel holding spirit-with cellular cavities for salt, p

ience of this. I had procured some horse-medicine, and giving my animal one dose, I packed the rest very carefully, as I thought; on opening my saddle-bag after a ride of twenty miles,

without a good warm plaid; the changes of temperature are often very sudden, and he

ect of keeping the wine quite cool for an incredibly long time, even in the hottest weather. I have been told that the Arabs in the desert have long been up to this dodge with respect to their water-bottles, which are suffered to leak a little to keep up the e

y in the west of England. The weather was excessively hot the morning H-- and I started on our expedition. About noon, after we had ridden some two hours, the sun's rays beat down upon us with such force that we made an unintentio

way a certain number of the middle branches of a tree, then a wooden platform is constructed, on which a quantity of hay is place

elded to the seduction. We got off, and throwing ourselves at full length on the gras

gated glare of the sun the whole morning. Of course we quickly had out our cigar-cases, and puffing the grateful weed, we we

s no joy

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languidly, at the same time gently and s

and, unlike his usual wont, he was quite disinclin

that the noise and suddenness of the outburst had so frightened our horses that they took to their heels and galloped off as hard as they could tear. Of course we were after them like a shot, but they had gone all manner of ways. I spotted my little Servian nag breasting the hill to our right i

es in an open glade in the wood, where they were calmly regaling in green pastures, like lotus-eater

out a little inn, indicated by a wisp of straw hanging above the door, and here we asked to be accommodated; they were profuse in promises, but as there was no one to look after the horses, we had to attend to them ourselves. The woman of the house said the men were all out, but would be back presently. We only took a little bread and cheese, but ordered a s

rds, the States Railway Company owns both mines and forests in all directions throughout

u cannot depend on the working as in Cornwall, for they are without regular lodes. A rich

rom these blubbering little animals, who I believe thought we were going to make mince meat of them, we at length extracted the fact that the people of the inn were gone off haymaking. This was really too bad, for if they had only told us, we could have made our arrangements accordingly, but here we were starving and not the remotest prospect of supper. There was no use wasting unparliamentary language, so I began foraging in

ebig's meat-a spoonful or two of this gave quality to the soup. I added ten eggs and some small squares of bread, flavouring the whole mess with a pinch of dried herbs, salt, and pepper-all from "the stores." The result was a capital compound:

ho would attend to them, not a soul could I get, they all slunk away. I believe they are afraid of horses

o entomologist, therefore I will not narrate my experiences that night; but I thought of the Irishman who said, "if the fleas had all been of one mind, they could have pul

ur way unassisted, but one of the mine inspectors from Dognacska had been sent with us. It was a delicious ride, the air still cool and fresh. Sometimes we were in the forest, and later, skirting a rocky ravine, we followed for a while a mountain stream. It was rough work for the horses, and once, when leading my

kinds of rare beetles and butterflies. I saw s

sible. The village is half hidden in a narrow valley. Here we were most hospitably received by Herr W--. In his collection of minerals he has many rare specimens from this locality, which is peculiarly rich in regard to variety. This gentleman kindly gave me some good specimens of magnetite, greenockite (sulphate of cadmium), aurichalcite, Ludwigite, and garnet. Leaving Moravicza, we rode on to Deutsch Bog

there is evidence of mining activity. Narrow-gauge lines run in every direction, serving the coal mines; there is besides a railway for th

vicza by a shorter route, riding the whole distance in one day, which we did easily, for the roads were not so bad,