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one of the Rothschilds, the owners of the Chemin
de Fer du Nord. Orders had been given to
facilitate our journey in every way, the
conductors were told to leave us undisturbed, my
patient being apt to become agitated at the sight
of a stranger. He was very quiet and docile and
we both lay down on our couches to sleep. I
was awakened by the grip of a madman round
my throat, twice I knocked him down, twice he
sprang at me again with the agility of a panther,
he nearly succeeded in strangling me. The last
thing I remember was dealing him a blow on his
head which seemed to stun him. On entering
Cologne in the morning we were found both lying
unconscious on the floor of the compartment and
taken to the Hôtel du Nord, where we remained
for twenty-four hours, each in his bed, in the
same room. As I had to tell the doctor who
came to stitch my wound—he had nearly bitten
off my ear—the proprietor sent word that no
lunatics were allowed in the hotel. I decided to
go on to Hamburg with the morning train. He
was very amiable the whole way to Hamburg,
sang “La Marseillaise” as we drove through the
town to the Kiel station. We embarked all right
on the steamer to Korsuer—at that time the
quickest route between the continent and Sweden.
A couple of miles off the Danish coast our steamer
was blocked by pack ice driven down from the
Cattegatt by a raging northern gale, a not very
uncommon occurrence during a severe winter.
We had to walk for over a mile on floating
ice-flakes, my friend enjoyed it hugely, and were
taken in open boats into Korsuer. As we were
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