The lower rooms of the castle have been repaired, and are used as prisons; and as we passed, arms were stretched forth from some of the barred windows, and plaintive voices entreated the passers-by to bestow some trifle upon the poor inmates.
Upwards of 140 prisoners are said to be confined here.

{56} About three o'clock in the afternoon the wind abated, and we continued our journey.

The passage is very uniform, and we saw only flat, bare shores; a group of trees even was a rarity.
September 21st.
When I came on deck this morning the Sound was far behind us.

To the left we had the open sea; on the right, instead of the bleak Schmoland, we had the bleaker Schonen, which was so barren, that we hardly saw a paltry fishing-village between the low sterile hills.
At nine o'clock in the morning we anchored in the port of Ystadt.

The town is pretty, and has a large square, in which stand the house of the governor, the theatre, and the town-hall.