For this purpose, either the hotel at Barrackpore or one of two or three houses at Gardenrich is selected.

In case all the lodgings should be occupied, a circumstance of by no means rare occurrence, since almost all marriages are celebrated in the months of November and December, a boat containing one or two cabins is hired, and the young people are condemned to pass the next eight days completely shut up from all their friends, and even the parents themselves are not allowed access to their children.
I am of opinion that a girl's modesty must suffer much from these coarse customs.

How the poor creature must blush on entering the place selected for her imprisonment; and how each look, each grin of the landlord, waiters, or boatmen, must wound her feelings! The worthy Germans, who think everything excellent that does not emanate from themselves, copy this custom most conscientiously..