This may be called the first scene in which I appeared as an
adventurer, and perhaps my good fortune may even have overbalanced
the bad, since I have escaped death full thirty times when the
chances were a hundred to one against me; certain it is I undertook
many things in which I seemed to have owed my preservation to the
very rashness of the action, and in which others equally brave would
have found death.


JOURNAL OF TRAVELS ON FOOT.


From Braunau, in Bohemia, through Bielitz, in Poland, to Meseritsch,
and from Meseritsch, by Thorn, to Ebling; in the whole 169 miles,
{3} performed without begging or stealing.

January 18th, 1747.--From Braunau, by Politz, to Nachod, three
miles, we having three florins forty-five kreutzers in our purse.

Jan. 19.--To Neustadt. Here Schell bartered his uniform for an old
coat, and a Jew gave him two florins fifteen kreutzers in exchange;
from hence we went to Reichenau; in all, three miles.

Jan. 20.--We went to Leitomischl, five miles. Here I bought a loaf
hot out of the oven, which eating greedily, had nearly caused my
death. This obliged us to rest a day, and the extravagant charge of
the landlord almost emptied our purse.

Jan. 22.--From Trubau, to Zwittau, in Moravia, four miles.