Theodore Child

Summer Holidays, Travelling Notes in Europe Theodore Child

At Buda-P esth, having for the moment had enough of swift travelling, I abandoned the dusty Orient Express, and, after resting a few days in the delightful Hungarian capital, I proceeded on my way to Constantinople on board one of theD anube steamers, the Ferdinand Max. It was in the month of August of i886, the weather was brilliant, the moon was full, and so we started oneS aturday at midnight, and steamed along all night, stopping from time to time at villages on either bank of the river to take in fresh passengers. The next morning I was on deck betimes to inspect the landscape, and the boat, and the passengers.
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