- A Family Wash
A Gypsy family washing in the river - Peasant Girl of the Black Forest
Peasant Girl of the Black Forest - King William IV
William IV. was a man of very moderate abilities; but a certain simplicity and geniality of character had secured for him the regard and respect of the people, and had carried him through the revolutionary epoch of the Reform Bill with no great loss of popularity, even at a time when he was supposed to be unfriendly to the measure. For the last two years he had ceased to take any interest in the political tendencies of the day, while discharging the routine duties of his high office with conscientious regularity. - In Sunday Dress, Monostorszég
In Sunday Dress, Monostorszég - Max Schneckenburger
In the late afternoon we floated out of the sweet air of the meadows into a stratum of effluvia from the tanneries of Tuttlingen, and but for the fact that the town claims as its hero Max Schneckenburger, the author of the words of “Die Wacht am Rhein” who was educated here in his youth, and for the more cogent reason of hunger, we probably should have paddled past the town without pausing longer than to admire some of its architectural features. - The Sketchbook
Showing the sketch-book to inhabitants of a town - The Watch-tower, Theben
The Watch-tower, Theben - The Wienerthor, Hainburg
The Wienerthor, Hainburg - Peasant Girl, Thieben
Peasant Girl, Thieben carrying a tall load on her back - Roumanian Peasant Girl
Roumanian Peasant Girl - Peasant Girls Mowing
Peasant Girls Mowing - Hohenzollern
Hohenzollern Castle - Nuns at Riedlingen
Under other circumstances we would have spent a day or more at Riedlingen, where we found most interesting architecture along the river-front and saw a party of nuns at work in a hay-field. We had a little more social success with them than we did with their coreligionists, the monks at Beuron, for they turned their great, cool, flapping head-dresses in our direction, and actually seemed temporarily interested in our canoes, and in us as well. - Hungarian Girls at Bezdán
Hungarian Girls at Bezdán - Pump at Pöchlarn
Woman standing in front of the Pump at Pöchlarn - Turkish Sailing Lotka, Sulina
Turkish Sailing Lotka, Sulina - The Monks of Beuron
The rapid current hurried us on, not against our will, and we only paused to watch the monks haymaking in the meadows, wearing a dress which looked like a compromise between the costumes of a washerwoman and a Cape Cod fisherman. They must have suffered in the hot sun, with their gowns of heavy woollen stuff, but they suffered in silence, and did not deign to answer our greetings or even to turn their eyes upon us. - Turkish Vessels
Just below Widdin, at the Bulgarian town of Arčer Palanka, the general course of the Danube changes from the south to the east; and to the town of Cernavoda, in the Dobrudscha, about 300 miles below, the river keeps the latter direction with few and slight deviations. The long, straight reaches were here enlivened by many sailing-vessels of the fifteenth-century type, with high ornate sterns, and single mast set midway between the bow and stern. Sometimes we met them gayly ploughing their way up-stream, with every bellying sail drawing full, and again we saw them dragged slowly against the current by a long line of patient Turkish sailors harnessed to a tow-rope; or else we came across them tied to the trees in some quiet spot awaiting a favorable wind, the decks covered with sleeping sailors, no man on watch. - Lumber Raft
Lumber Raft - The Ferry
Our afternoon cruise was not further remarkable except for the sight of various immense ferry-boats swinging across the stream attached to wire guys and bearing two great loads of hay, cattle and all, and for a visit to Ingolstadt, a military post of great importance and correspondingly unattractive aspect. - On the Tile-boat
On the Tile-boat - Loading Grain at Braila
Loading Grain at Braila - Wood-sawyer at Ulm
A woman sawing wood - Returning from Market
Woman returning from market pushing a barrow with empty baskets - Mosque in Silistria
Mosque in Silistria - Water-carriers, Duna Földvár
Women water carriers - Washer-women
At every available point of the crowded river-front washerwomen, with their petticoats wet to the waist, stood knee-deep in the stream, and accompanied their lively chatter with the vigorous tattoo of their active mallets. In the shadow of the houses near the landing great piles of watermelons were the centres of groups of all ages, every individual busy with the luscious, juicy fruit. - Bulgarian Fisherman Basket-making
Bulgarian Fisherman Basket-making - Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle - Peasant Wagon, Hainburg
Peasant Wagon, Hainburg - Thackery
William Makepeace Thackery - Roumanian Peasants Selling Flowers and Fruit
Roumanian Peasants Selling Flowers and Fruit