Excerpt from The Water Lily on the Danube: Being a Brief Account of the Perils of a Pair-Oar During a Voyage From Lambeth to Pesth It is to the kindness with which the journal of our travels on that occasion was received by the public, that they are indebted for the infliction of this second series. While we were at Wurzburg last year, a paragraph appeared in a newspaper there, informing its readers that five Englishmen had come from London in a little boat, and were going through the danube-main Canal, and down the Danube to the Black Sea. We had no thoughts whatever of doing this, but it struck us that on some future occasion, we might go by that route as far as Vienna, or perhaps Pesth; below which town, for some four hundred miles, the Danube scenery is flat and uninteresting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.