Indeed
fly-fishing is gaining ground, and English tackle in great demand."
This practice of the wholesale destruction of fish by the use of
dynamite has not been stopped a moment too soon; and some time must now
elapse in certain waters before they can become properly stocked again.
It was now time for me to quit the happy valley, and I bade adieu to my
kind friends near Hatszeg. I believe if I had remained to this day, I
should not have outstayed my welcome. I had come to pay a morning visit,
and I stopped on more than a fortnight.
The Hungarian has a particularly pleasant way of greeting a stranger
under his own roof. He gives you the idea that he has been expecting
you, though in reality your existence and name were unknown to him till
he read the letter or the visiting-card with which you have just
presented him.
I now sent my portmanteau, &c., on to Herrmannstadt, packed my
saddle-bags to take with me, and once more rode off into the wilds. My
destination this time was Petroseny.
[Footnote 13: Vol. v., The Birds of Transylvania.]
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.
The history of the town of Petroseny is as short as that of some of the
western cities of America.
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