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A Journey srom Komara to the Mine-Towns in Hungary,
put all the Inhabitants to the Sword. Their Boats here are of one piece
of wood,in which notwithstanding they venture themselves,and pass the
greatest Rivers with them; in this Fort were i p men commanded
by Captain Matthias Fruhwurdt. From hence by Forchatz we came
to Schella, where there is another Fort built to hinder the Turks from
palling the River Waag, for hereabouts the Tartars broke over, burned
?nd ruined the whole Country about in the late war, in such manner,
tbit it remains Rill desolate ; at half a miles distance from this place is
> Hole in the Earth which burns like Solsaterra by Naples. From hence
■' j went to Schinta a large Fort and built long since to command the
River and the Country about. There is a Tower in the middle, four
Bastions and many good pieces of Cannon. At the entrance there
hanges a great Rib, a Thigh-bone and a Tooth, which I judged to be
of an Elephant, having seen the Skeleton of one : and also Such bones
as these hang up before the Emperor’s House at Lax ami ourg ; those
bearing the name of the bones of a great Heathen Virgin; and these
of a Gy ant. We came afterwards to Leopolftadt; a noble regular For-
tification with six Bastions, where the Young Count de Soaches com-
manded, to whom I delivered Letters, and received many favours from
him. Afterwards I palled the River and came to Freiftat, a large fair
Town but lately burned by the Turk. Count Forchatz hath a handsome
Castle here, and a large House in the Town, whereof I took the
draught.
The Lutherans had also a School or College here, but ruined with
the rest of the Buildings. They are Tributaries to the Turk, paying
yearly eight Hungarifche, almost four pence of our money, for every
head, whether of Man, Woman, Children, Sheep, Oxen, or Horses.
The Children are educated to hardship, and the Women seldom marry
twice. They bathe much, and use sweating naked in Stoves, holding
their feet in Warm water. They use Cupping-glastes also very much
and scarifications. In the Convent of the Franciscans were onely
twelve Friars left; and the Roman Christians in these parts have few
other Priests but Monks-
Two Hungarian miles from Frieftat lies Banca, where in a low
ground near the River are fifteen Baths; into three of which the River-
water is now entred,the River Waag continually wearing out its banks
by reason of its rapid course. Twenty years since there were also hot
Baths on the other side of the River, but are now covered with the
cold stream. These Baths leave a white sediment in all places, and
tinge Copper and Silver immediately as black as Ink : Hard: by these
Baths is a Quarry of Stone, and some Veins of Chalk, which were ve-
ry pleasing to behold, the Chalk being of all colours except green, and
the colours so finely mixed, as a painting or marble Paper doth not
equal it.
We being here upon the 18 of March, and the weather very cold,
had no thoughts of bathing in so open a place; though in some of
them we saw Women and Children; and the Huffar who drove our
Chariot hither, after we had supped, Went out, and in a very hard frost
pulled offhis clothes in the open Meadow at midnight,and bathed him-
self in one of those Baths.
March
put all the Inhabitants to the Sword. Their Boats here are of one piece
of wood,in which notwithstanding they venture themselves,and pass the
greatest Rivers with them; in this Fort were i p men commanded
by Captain Matthias Fruhwurdt. From hence by Forchatz we came
to Schella, where there is another Fort built to hinder the Turks from
palling the River Waag, for hereabouts the Tartars broke over, burned
?nd ruined the whole Country about in the late war, in such manner,
tbit it remains Rill desolate ; at half a miles distance from this place is
> Hole in the Earth which burns like Solsaterra by Naples. From hence
■' j went to Schinta a large Fort and built long since to command the
River and the Country about. There is a Tower in the middle, four
Bastions and many good pieces of Cannon. At the entrance there
hanges a great Rib, a Thigh-bone and a Tooth, which I judged to be
of an Elephant, having seen the Skeleton of one : and also Such bones
as these hang up before the Emperor’s House at Lax ami ourg ; those
bearing the name of the bones of a great Heathen Virgin; and these
of a Gy ant. We came afterwards to Leopolftadt; a noble regular For-
tification with six Bastions, where the Young Count de Soaches com-
manded, to whom I delivered Letters, and received many favours from
him. Afterwards I palled the River and came to Freiftat, a large fair
Town but lately burned by the Turk. Count Forchatz hath a handsome
Castle here, and a large House in the Town, whereof I took the
draught.
The Lutherans had also a School or College here, but ruined with
the rest of the Buildings. They are Tributaries to the Turk, paying
yearly eight Hungarifche, almost four pence of our money, for every
head, whether of Man, Woman, Children, Sheep, Oxen, or Horses.
The Children are educated to hardship, and the Women seldom marry
twice. They bathe much, and use sweating naked in Stoves, holding
their feet in Warm water. They use Cupping-glastes also very much
and scarifications. In the Convent of the Franciscans were onely
twelve Friars left; and the Roman Christians in these parts have few
other Priests but Monks-
Two Hungarian miles from Frieftat lies Banca, where in a low
ground near the River are fifteen Baths; into three of which the River-
water is now entred,the River Waag continually wearing out its banks
by reason of its rapid course. Twenty years since there were also hot
Baths on the other side of the River, but are now covered with the
cold stream. These Baths leave a white sediment in all places, and
tinge Copper and Silver immediately as black as Ink : Hard: by these
Baths is a Quarry of Stone, and some Veins of Chalk, which were ve-
ry pleasing to behold, the Chalk being of all colours except green, and
the colours so finely mixed, as a painting or marble Paper doth not
equal it.
We being here upon the 18 of March, and the weather very cold,
had no thoughts of bathing in so open a place; though in some of
them we saw Women and Children; and the Huffar who drove our
Chariot hither, after we had supped, Went out, and in a very hard frost
pulled offhis clothes in the open Meadow at midnight,and bathed him-
self in one of those Baths.
March