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All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kindSometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floodsIt takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sorts of attireSome of them were just like the peasants at home or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets, and round hats, and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waistThey 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 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 nailsThey wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustachesThey are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessingOn the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigandsThey are, however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in natural self-assertion It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is a very interesting old placeBeing practically on the frontier--for the Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina--it has had a very stormy existence, and it certainly shows marks of shop it

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