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JUTLAND
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THE DANISH ISLANDS.
CHAPTER I.
Hamburg — The Alster Lake — Lubec — Epitaphia — Drinklage
family — Schifferhaus — Travemünde — North German table-d’hôte
and cuisine — Sea-baths of Düsternbrook — German economy —
Weasel called the King’s Daughter — Kiel — Danebrog — Adolf of the
Milk-can — Rendsburg — Merodeurs — John Rantzau — A Holstein
farm — Chateaux of the nobility.
HAMBURG.
August 3rd, 1858.—We arrived at last, all safe and sound,
after a rough and tiresome passage. I really imagined
we should never get under weigh, for at the eleventh hour
came a cargo of oil-barrels, already marked down upon
the bill of lading. There was no help for it, embarked they
must be; so we lost the tide, and, after encountering the
tail of a storm off the Hanoverian coast, arrived too late
to mount the river to Hamburg, had to wait some nine
hours till there was sufficient water to cross the bar, and
then sailed up the Elbe. On our passage we steamed
by a brig, all up on end, a total wreck; and, later, a
second, deep embedded in a sand-bank—the results of
last Saturday’s storm. But all is calm now, and, as
we neared the city, the left-side bank became pretty
enough, studded with the mansions and fine castles of
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