. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. llundoubtedly be Romer (Romans). In their schools, so I was informed,the children are catechized thus :— Of whom are we descendants ?— OfRomulus.—What were our progenitors ?— Demigods.— Name someof our great forefathers.— Virgil, Cicero, Livy, etc. etc. During the revolution, the Wallack force was organized according to theRoman division of an army, with phalanx and tribunes/ justancestors had. But why laugh, when your own armorial beariibought at Heralds College, and your ancestry is—and you know it—a
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. llundoubtedly be Romer (Romans). In their schools, so I was informed,the children are catechized thus :— Of whom are we descendants ?— OfRomulus.—What were our progenitors ?— Demigods.— Name someof our great forefathers.— Virgil, Cicero, Livy, etc. etc. During the revolution, the Wallack force was organized according to theRoman division of an army, with phalanx and tribunes/ justancestors had. But why laugh, when your own armorial beariibought at Heralds College, and your ancestry is—and you know it—asham from beginning to end ? A man who has made money by his industry, when he sets up a carriage,wants, of course, a crest or coat-of-arms to put on the panels. B IRoumains must needs have a national costume to parade in ; they sooncomposed one. The tunic is of white cloth with blue braid. On graftoccasions a mantle is worn, and a broad Roman-looking sword. Bootstoo, Hessian boots as we call them, are also taken instead of the customarysandals encasing the feet and »» ill pi mm pmmm m <mn^ . iin 67 CHAPTER V. A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. Hermannstadt was called the red town w by the Turks,from the colour of its brick walls. And many a time didthe infidels visit it; on one occasion, 1438, besiegingthe place with 70,000 men, when their Sultan Amuradwas killed by an arrow sent from one of the towers. Likeall the Saxon towns,—and this is one of their especialcharacteristics,—it was surrounded by a wall: a necessaryprecaution at a time when the land was never safe for anhour from the invasions and forays of various Easternhordes. At the end of the High Street, the view is open; andthere the Fogaraser mountain-range is seen, forming abold background. It is a fine feature in the landscape,and is the more imposing as it rises at once from thebroad plain on which Hermannstadt stands. For aboutone hundred miles this chain extends towards Kronstadt,—the
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