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The Brother and the Emperor drove on side by side. "I hear," said the Emperor, "that the Picards are giving up their religion and going over to the Utraquists." The Baron was astounded. He had never, he said, heard the slightest whisper that the Brethren intended to abandon their own Confessions. "I have heard it," said the Emperor, "as positive fact from Baron Hassenstein himself."
For many weeks he kept up this trying routine till he reached his furthest west, and again till he had returned to his starting-point, whose latitude and longitude he had previously determined. When he returned to Europe, Dr. Hassenstein and he made a map from the data Junker had collected, and fixed the position of his furthest west.
The world of affairs had not extinguished his love of learning. He was an intimate friend of Bohuslaus of Hassenstein, scholar and traveller, and corresponded with him in elegant Latin. Attracted by the reputation for eloquence won by the notorious Hieronymus Balbus, he had persuaded him c. 1499 to come and teach in Prague a step which in view of Balbus' bad life he afterwards deeply regretted.
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