They are, however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in natural self-assertion. All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there were petticoats under them. Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns.

I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina. Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions. The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches.