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Title: Hungary and the Hungarians
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Bovill, W. B. F Pascoe, William, ill
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Publisher: New York, McClure
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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teresting en route, butthe journey to Orsova has no big towns, and thebeauty is only found in the lower reaches of theDanube. Part of the trip, that from Bazias to .Orsova,is really great. I have taken the boats of theMagyar Folyam es Tengerhajozasi ReszvenyTarsasag at all seasons of the year, and seen theview under all kinds of climatic conditions, but ithas always been grand. After meandering along thebusy wharves, where in summer swarthy Magyars inan artistic variety of knickerbockers and shirts carryto and fro the merchandise for Vienna or the BlackSea, one finally escapes civilisation again, and withfew regrets. The last thing that remains in onesmemory is not the palaces of Budapest, but thosebronzed lightermen, those athletic-looking dockers.Artists simply rave over the blue and reds of theirhome-made garments. The dead speaks in its ownway, but we carry thoughts of the living with us.We pass by unheeded almost Budafok with itschampagne reputation, and J&rd with its page in
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THE DANUBE 289 Turkish history. Even Ercsi and Adony fail to ehcitsurprise or kindle excitement, when it is known thatin one a great poet-statesman lies buried, and in theother a Hungarian traitor general allowed a HungarianImperialistic partisan to be executed. It takes moreto attract people to-day. The world is rapidly grow-ing blase. Quite a dozen small places are thus hitoff. One celebrated for its wheat, another for itsarchbishop, and a third for its wine. I rememberthe wine, and the traveller in Hungary must try someof the famous Szegszard red wine. The climaticconditions all favour good wine. A usually longbut mild winter, with few spring frosts, little hail,and in summer a regular tropical heat. Try thegenuine Szegszard wine when you visit Hungary, andyou will find it smooth, aromatic, a trifle dry, butmost agreeable. The Lengyel estate owned byCount Alexander Apponyi also produces someexcellent red wine. But one must not tarry toolong over the wine-cup, for there is Baja to s

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