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and sailed past the city of Sardink. Here in Pasow they told us, that there was great mortality in Bohemia, and that the King of Bohemia, our gracious lord, had gone with the Queen’s Majesty and the princes from Prague to the city of Most on account of the plague. And Lord Albert, who had intended to ride to His Majesty with two or three others, bethought himself in consequence and would not go any where away from his suite and the carriage, and that on account of the plague. For we were all much grieved and terrified, when they told us that there was great mortality in Bohemia.
On the morrow, Thursday, we sailed seven miles down stream below Pasow on the Dunaj (Danube), to a village,[1] . . . . . . and
- ↑ Another gap due to the Austrian censorship of the press.
