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10
DÜSTERNBROOK.
Chap. I.
I feel confident that the make of the North-German
men has given rise to the idea of the gigantic proportions
of the earlier inhabitants of this country. In books
touching on antiquity, topography, &c., we constantly
read of thigh-bones dug up in this neighbourhood
measuring some unheard-of length, which is brought
forward as proof of the degeneracy of the present
generation. Let any unprejudiced person merely look at a
North-German of the present century, a Pomeranian,
or a Mecklenburgher; why, only observe them for one
moment—they appear as though split asunder, all legs
and no body: it is quite a miracle where they find
place to stow away the six meals they devour in the
course of the livelong day.
Queer specimens of the culinary art are these dishes
of North Germany. Eel-soup, the reptile itself floating
along in company with stewed pears, cherries, and
spices; shrimps and open tart served together on the
same plate; and veal, veal, everlasting veal, till you
loathe the very sight of a cow and her offspring.
What with the people, the food, and the heat, we
were glad enough to pack up and fly from the so-called
sea-baths of Travemünde.
DÜSTERNBR00K.
So we flitted along the railroad back to Hamburg,
and thence re-embarked for Kiel, where I had never
been before, and had heard say of a sea-bathing place
planted on its fiorde side, and where I knew, after
sundry consultations with the map, there was no river to
dilute its half-salted water.
The name of this place is Düsternbrook; a village—
no, I cannot call it a village—for there are neither
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