As raftsmen we should certainly speak the Bavarian dialect, which none of us can do.

For that reason I think it would be safer to leave the Danube at Passau, and make down through Munich.

We should be at Passau tomorrow morning, and can put up at any little place by the riverside.

Two days' walking will take us to Munich.
"Certainly no one would suspect us of being escaped prisoners.

We can get some other clothes tomorrow morning, and finish the rest of our journey as countrymen.
"The principal thing will be to get rid of these high boots.