Chapter II: Preface: v

I

THE UPPER DANUBE

CHAP.

I. FROM DONAUESCHINGEN TO DONAUWÖRTH 3

II. DONAUWÖRTH TO RATISBON 17

III. RATISBON TO PASSAU 49

II

THE AUSTRIAN DANUBE

IV. PASSAU TO LINZ 75

V. LINZ TO THE WACHAU 99

VI. THE WACHAU 129

VII. THE WACHAU TO DÉVÉNY 159

III

THE HUNGARIAN DANUBE

VIII. FROM THE OLD CAPITAL TO THE NEW 185

IX. THE HUNGARIAN CAPITAL 204

X. BUDAPEST TO BELGRADE 222

XI. BELGRADE TO ORSOVA 243

IV

THE LOWER DANUBE

XII. THE IRON GATE TO RUSTZUK 269

XIII. RUSTZUK TO THE BLACK SEA 288

INDEX 309

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

WEITENEGG CASTLE FROM THE WEITENBACH (_in colour_)

_Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

RATISBON 28

THE WALHALLA (_in colour_) 42

OBERHAUS AND NIEDERHAUS, PASSAU 76

THE STRUDEL (_in colour_) 110

ST. NIKOLA 120

SARMINGSTEIN 122

PERSENBEUG 126

MÖLK (_in colour_) 130

AGGSTEIN (_in colour_) 134

THE DEVIL’S WALL 138

SPITZ VINEYARDS 140

WEISSENKIRSCHEN 142

DÜRRENSTEIN 148

DÜRRENSTEIN CASTLE 152

STEIN 154

THE MARKET PLACE, KREMS (_in colour_) 156

VIENNA FROM LEOPOLDSBERG (_in colour_) 174

THE CATHEDRAL, POZSONY 188

GRAN (_in colour_) 200

THE PALACE, BUDAPEST (_in colour_) 216

BOATS FROM SZEGEDIN 230

BELGRADE 240

OLD TURKISH FORT, SEMENDRIA (_in colour_) 244

BÁZIÁS 246

RAMA CASTLE (_in colour_) 250

THE KAZAN (_in colour_) 256

THE CROWN CHAPEL, ORSOVA 260

A CAFÉ IN ADA KALEH 262

THE IRON GATE 272

“The Danuby, the river sometimes of our merry passage”

SIR HENRY WOTTON

I

THE UPPER DANUBE

THE DANUBE