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C J. 30

A long dinner & a good one & plenty of fun thereat had we, and our two English men who told us they could find nothing solid to eat, found room for plenty of hollow viands. At night these silly fellows kept us in a roar of laughter on being successfully shown off & foiled in their wit by a waiter, who spoke a little English. 6 MON. JULY 31 At 6 o’clock we started to voyage down the Meuse in the selfsame packet boat that Hogg & Mrs Trollope speak about. Twelve years have not altered its roughness of accommodation, the greater is the pity, for a sweet voyage it is between these lovely banks. We sat on the roof of the cabin on sacks placed there for us by the fine jolly looking coxwain, & pleasantly were the hours. Our fellow voyagers were mostly peasants or small tradesmen

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