- Sie ein Englaender? Sie 'sind gewiss aus Nord Deutschland. Sie
sprechen recht gut Deutsch. - Meine Herren, ich bin ein Englaender: viele
Englaender studieren und sprechen Deutsch, und wenn Siemit mir eine
langeUnterredung gehalten haetten, so haetten Sie bald ausgefunden durch
meine Sprachfehler, dass ich kein geborner Deutscher bin. - Aber Sie haben
unsere Fragen vollkommen gut beantwortet. - Warum nicht? man hat mir die
nehmlichen Fragen so wiederholten Malen gestellt, dass ich die dazu
gehoerigen Antworte auswendig habe, wie em Katechismus.[123] The officer
laughed, took up a pen, vised and gave me back my passport.
The whole of the country on the banks of this noble river the Danube is
picturesque and presents much variety. There cannot be a more delightful
summer tour than a descent down this river. The next town of consequence
that we arrived at was Linz, a large, populous and beautifully built city
and capital of Upper Austria. The circumjacent country is in part
mountainous. The Danube is very broad here, and there is an immensely long
wooden bridge. We put up at the inn Zum goldenen Kreutz (golden cross).
Here it became indispensably necessary to change our money for Austrian
paper, for that sort of it called Wiener Waehrung (Vienna security), since
neither foreign coin nor another description of Austrian paper, called
Conventions-Muenze (conventional currency), are current for ordinary
purposes; and it is necessary to get them changed for the current paper
Wiener Waehrung.To explain this matter more fully and clearly:
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