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Crosse, Andrew F.

"Round About the Carpathians"


Post-office at Karansebes--Good headquarters for a
sportsman--Preparations for a week in the mountains--The party
starting for the hunt--Adventures by the way--Fine
trees--Game--Hut in the forest--Beauty of the scenery in the
Southern Carpathians 104

CHAPTER XI.
Chamois and bear hunting--First battue--Luxurious dinner 5000
feet above the sea-level--Storm in the night--Discomforts--The
bear's supper--The eagle's breakfast--Second and third day's
shooting--Baking a friend as a cure for fever--Striking
camp--View into Roumania 118

CHAPTER XII.
Back at Mehadia--Troubles about a carriage--An unexpected night
on the road--Return to Karansebes--On horseback through the Iron
Gate Pass--Varhely, the ancient capital of Dacia--Roman
remains--Beauty of the Hatszeg Valley 131

CHAPTER XIII.
Hungarian hospitality--Wallack laziness--Fishing--"Settled
gipsies"--Anecdote--Old _regime_--Fire--Old Roman bath--The
avifauna of Transylvania--Fly-fishing 140

CHAPTER XIV.
On horseback to Petroseny--A new town--Valuable
coal-fields--Killing fish with dynamite and poison--Singular
manner of repairing roads--Hungarian patriotism--Story of
Hunyadi Janos--Intrusion of the Moslems into Europe 152

CHAPTER XV.
Hunting for a guide--School statistics--Old times--Over the
mountains to Herrmannstadt--Night in the open--Nearly setting
the forest on fire--Orlat 160
CHAPTER XVI.


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