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354 Thus I completed my six weeks' tour. I had within these six weeks travelled through Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Germany, Austria and Italy, and I had visited, though in a tourist's fashion, a good number of the historical cities of Europe. The following is a list of the places which I visited during the six weeks from Tuesday the 2nd November to Tuesday the 14th December.

A few notes on practical matters may be of use to my countrymen bent on travelling. In all the respectable hotels in the continent, English, French and German are spoken, so that a tourist knowing any one of these languages has no difficulties in hotels. Of guide-books, Badeker's series are the best; they are so good that a tourist, having these guide-books, does not require a guide anywhere, and saves a great deal more than the cost of the books in this way, and also sees everything thoroughly, and to his satisfaction.