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"Magyarland" Volume 1 (of 2)

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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The author records extensive travels across the plains, towns, and mountain ranges of Hungary, combining evocative landscape description with portraits of rural life, music, and seasonal customs. Episodes range from pastoral scenes on the Puszta and urban promenades to excursions into ice caves, alpine storms, and chamois hunting, interwoven with encounters at inns, Romani camps, and river journeys. The narrative balances natural-history observation, local ethnography, and mountaineering account, punctuated by sketches and illustrations that highlight terrain, weather, and everyday ceremonies.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOL. I.

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Valley of the Fünf-Seen Frontispiece
The Ice-caves of Dobsina Facing page 155
SMALL ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
A young Hungarian Noble viii
View on the Gulf of Venice 16
Slovene Girl 17
Shepherd and Sheep on the Plains 26
Brigands 29
Old Hungarian Peasant 30
Peasants in Country Cart 32
Going to Church 34
“Little Nell” 41
“Carriages meet the Trains!” 43
Travellers bivouacking for the Night 51
Magyar Costumes 54
Our Guide 56
A Hungarian Village 58
Gipsy-tent 65
The Threshold of Alfőld 72
Déli-báb (a Mirage) 76
Shepherd’s Hut and Well 91
Peasants at a Well 95
Cottage Doorway 103
A Rainy Day 105
Our Guide’s Wife 111
Jözsef 121
Church Steeple at Pest 122
A true Magyar 133
Our Chamber-maid 135
Boat-house in the Volksgarten 143
A Magyar Lady 147
Under the Robinias 153
The “Corridor” in the Ice-caves 154
The Spitzenstein 157
Women washing in a Stream 165
Fetching the Milk 168
An Inn Kitchen 176
Down the Mountain-side 181
A Corner in the Inn Parlour 183
Amongst the Slovaks and Rusniaks at Wernár 188
“The last sweet thing in Hats” 190
A youthful Slovak in Tears 195
Villa Sontagh 202
Tátra-Fűred 204
A Rusniak Brother! 207
Goblins of the Mist 208
Zigzagging 211
“Minsh’s” Flight 221
The Lomnitzer-Spitze 236
A Carpathian Cart 238
Kesmark 242
Old Magyar Woman 251
The Red Convent 254
By the Way-side 256
The “Royal Hungarian Mail” 264
Peaks of the Northern Tátra 269
Lake in the Mountains 276
The Herr Graf 277
Tátra Staff 290
A Mountain “Gottesacker” 305
Way-side Shrine 310
Slovak Sympathy 319
Covered Cart containing Zipser Peasants 324
More “Gentle Slovaks” 332
Greeting 339
Merchandise Boat on the Danube 340
A Swine-herd’s Hut 346
The Scullery-maid of S. S. Szechenyi 352
Our Danubian Jeannette 361
A Slavonian Boat 365
Castle of Golumbacz 370
The Bosnian Brethren 374
A Hungarian Country Inn 379