times round the Globe. What multiple of the Equator was it, then,
O Dryasdust? The Herr Professor, little studious of abridgment,
does not say.

But always some preaching, by zealous monks, accompanied the
chivalrous fighting. And colonists came in from Germany; trickling
in, or at times streaming. Victorious Ritterdom offers terms to
the beaten Heathen; terms not of tolerant nature, but which will
be punctually kept by Ritterdom. When the flame of revolt or
general conspiracy burnt up again too extensively, there was a new
Crusade proclaimed in Germany and Christendom; and the
Hochmeister, at Marburg or elsewhere, and all his marshals and
ministers were busy,--generally with effect. High personages came
on crusade to them. Ottocar King of Bohemia, Duke of Austria and
much else, the great man of his day, came once (A.D. 1255);
Johann King of Bohemia, in the next century, once and again.
The mighty Ottocar, [Voigt, iii. 80-87.] with his extensive far-
shining chivalry, "conquered Samland in a month;" tore up the
Romova where Adalbert had been massacred, and burnt it from the
face of the Earth. A certain Fortress was founded at that time,
in Ottocar's presence; and in honor of him they named it KING'S
FORTRESS, "Konigsberg:" it is now grown a big-domed metropolitan
City,--where we of this Narrative lately saw a Coronation going
on, and Sophie Charlotte furtively taking a pinch of snuff.
Among King Ottocar's esquires or subaltern junior officials on
this occasion, is one RUDOLF, heir of a poor Swiss Lordship and
gray Hill-Castle, called HAPSBURG, rather in reduced
circumstances, whom Ottocar likes for his prudent hardy ways;
a stout, modest, wise young man,--who may chance to redeem
Hapsburg a little, if he live? How the shuttles fly, and the