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Cirsium arvense is a bad pest in Hungary.
Dr. van Degen always speaks of "Slaves" for "Slavs",
Bobajka is a Slav dish of honey & poppyseed, & other stuff.
Fields are worked by Hungarian white oxen.  Log houses appear.
The grainfields are not as clean as in Bohemia and Germany, more like U.S.
Houses are commonly scattered on farms as in America. Slovaks live chiefly in villages.
Dr. von Degen says there is loess at Pomaz.
We returned at night, and I returned to hotel after one of the finest days in Europe.  Found Bertha & Paul at the hotel.

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[[underlined]] 4 červenu , 1914 [[/underlined]], v sobotu.

Went out a little in morning to look about the city.
Bertha & Paul arranged to leave for Vienna at noon, and I started out to hunt up the Geological Institute, Stefánia rit, k. 14.  I followed Stefánia rit.  There are beautiful large sycamores in park adjoining.
After some trouble I found the Institute, and learned that the Director, Dr. Lotsy, was not in.
The assistant director suggested Százhalmbatta or Ercsi as good localities for loess.
He called a younger man, [[insertion]] ^ who gave me the name of [[/insertion]] Mr. Peter Freitz, geologist, Stefánia rit, 14, [[insertion]]^ who works in loess. [[/insertion]]  He speaks good English, and showed the Museum, in which are many