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The peasants' own lands, as a rule, are very badly managed; their ploughing is shallow, and they do nothing or next to nothing in the way of drainage. Want of progress amongst the Saxons The Burzenland Kronstadt Mixed character of its inhabitants Szeklers General Bem's campaign. It was a glorious morning when I left the comfortable village of Zeiden.
The fall of Toroczko would spread a wholesome fear far and wide; it would be almost as if one should report the overthrow of Pest itself. Bem's men would halt on the march, panic-stricken at the news, and Bem himself would be forced to yield to their desires and return to Transylvania.
"Or, in other words," interrupted the man in the gown, "to prevent him from dealing Jellachich a fatal blow, we are to throw ourselves in Bem's way." "The victors of Abrudbanya and Brad will not shrink from the undertaking, I should hope," was Diurbanu's response. "Let us understand each other," said the other, setting the little boy on his knee and trotting him up and down as he spoke.
In another place Mr Boner says, "The Szekler soldier, I was told, was 'excessive, which means extreme, in all he did." In the view of recent events, it may be worth while to recall to mind a few particulars of General Bem's campaign in Transylvania. In no part of Hungary was the war of independence waged with so much bitterness as down here on these border-lands.
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