One old man who was gathering driftwood was so surprised and frightened that he sprang from his boat and ran up the bank without waiting to secure it.
At nightfall Paul was still driving along.

He heard a peasant whistling and singing on the bank, he hailed him and inquired in German, how far Strassburg was below.

"Eine stunde," (one hour,) was the reply.
He afterwards found out that it was the custom in that part of the country to give distance by time.

In half an hour afterwards the lights of the bridge at Kohl showed up.

There were two bridges there, one for the railroad and one a low pontoon bridge.