Hungary and the Hungarians . n a carriage for Szepes-Ofalu,we practically passed through the Magura Mountains,then made for the Red-Cloister, after spending thenight at Szepes-Ofalu. Curiously enough, the Duna-jecz flows from south to north. At Red-Cloister menawaited us with rafts formed of hollowed-out treessuch as the district provides, in which were arrangedseats of a most comfortable order. With a few pre-liminaries, we were off. My Polish friend at the bowwas ably seconded by the Slovak in the stern, andbetween them they succeeded in giving us someexciting moments. How we rushed along, u
Hungary and the Hungarians . n a carriage for Szepes-Ofalu,we practically passed through the Magura Mountains,then made for the Red-Cloister, after spending thenight at Szepes-Ofalu. Curiously enough, the Duna-jecz flows from south to north. At Red-Cloister menawaited us with rafts formed of hollowed-out treessuch as the district provides, in which were arrangedseats of a most comfortable order. With a few pre-liminaries, we were off. My Polish friend at the bowwas ably seconded by the Slovak in the stern, andbetween them they succeeded in giving us someexciting moments. How we rushed along, until itseemed as if our frail barque had tired of controland was now determined to court disaster and in-dependence of movement. Yet every time we lookedlike getting a good wetting our phlegmatic steersmandeftly turned the primitive coracle into safer swiftness of movement almost made one giddy,yet accidents are unknown here, so expert are therafters. Any lover of speed, of rapid movement, musttry this SLOVAK PEASANT OF THE 1 \IK\ XORTHERN HUNGARY THE CARPATHIANS AND ITS PEOPLES 55 It is obvious that, regarding natural beauty, Hungaryin the Carpathian area is surpassed by many countries,but in no country can one find the historic, poetic,patriotic sense of peoples so peculiarly blending withNatures gifts, and so redolent of an elusive somethingwhich I must ever call the Magyar spirit. One cannotwander amongst the charms of the High Tatra andtouch even in an inadequate form the life of the peoplein that region without being deeply impressed by theirresistible yearning for freedom—a yearning fosteredin silent meditation, woven into the tissue of a thousanddreams, abounding in song, surcharged with tears,supported by literature and history, yet practical in itsimpracticability, and as pervasive as nationality. Noone is forgotten. In Hungary names and dates livein the memory even of the inadequately by ties unseen, linked by chains hammeredi
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