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This postmaster was a pattern official, an honour to his calling; he not only bore with me, but he offered to lend me a gun if mine did not come. In Germany there is a saying, "So grob wie ein postbeamter." The postmaster of Karansebes was a glorious exception to the rule.
This upset all our vorspann arrangements, and to our great disgust the best part of the day was wasted in seeking another vehicle and horses to take us to Karansebes. At last we succeeded in obtaining a lumbering sort of covered conveyance, whose speed we doubted from the first; but the owner, who was to drive us, declared he would get us to our journey's end in an incredibly short space of time.
"Karansebes!" mused the emperor. "'Cara mini sedes! Thus sang Ovid, and from his ode a city took her name the city where the poet found his grave. A stately monument to Ovid is Karansebes; and now a lonely, heart-sick monarch is coming to make a pilgrimage thither, craving of Ovid's tomb the boon of a resting-place for his weary head. Oh, Cara mihi sedes, where art thou?"
Post-office at Karansebes Good headquarters for a sportsman Preparations for a week in the mountain 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. We put up at the Grünen Baum, the principal inn at Karansebes.
Karansebes is not at all a bad place as headquarters for the sportsman. In the neighbourhood there is very good snipe-shooting in spring and autumn. The fishing too is excellent for trout and grayling. The bear, the wolf, and the chamois are to be met with on the heights, which form this portion of the great horseshoe of the Carpathians.
There are many interesting remains here fragments of altars, sculptured capitals, and stones with inscriptions, all telling the same story the story of Roman dominion and greatness. Just then we had no time for archæology, for we wanted to push on to Karansebes, and we stayed only a day and a half at Mehadia.
The costumes of the women were picturesque, but the dance itself was a slow affair, very unlike the lively czardas of the Magyar peasant. A hunting expedition proposed Drive from Uibanya to Orsova Oriental aspect of the market-place Cserna Valley Hercules-Bad, Mehadia Post-office mistakes Drive to Karansebes Rough customers en route Lawlessness Fair at Karansebes Podolian cattle Ferocious dogs.
Well, life has called me back, and I must bear its burdens until Heaven releases me." Just then a horse cane by, at full speed. The groom, who was walking by the emperor's side, darted forward, seized the reins, and swung himself triumphantly into the saddle. "Now, sire," said he, "we can travel lustily ahead. We are on the right road, and in one hour will reach Karansebes."
The distance from Orsova on the Danube to Hatszeg in Transylvania is 110 miles: the district is known as the "Romanen Banat," and, as the name imports, is principally inhabited by Wallacks, otherwise Roumanians. We arrived at Karansebes in the afternoon, and by good-luck it chanced to be fair-day.
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