¬The¬ Dolomite Mountains : excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863 ; with a geological chapter and pictorial illustrations from original drawings on the spot
Page 77 of 600
Author:
Gilbert, Josiah ; Churchill, George C. / by Josiah Gilbert, and G. C. Churchill
Place:
London
Publisher:
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
Physical description:
XX, 576 S. : Ill., Kt.
Language:
Englisch
Subject heading:
g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1861-1863
Location mark:
II A-4.101
Intern ID:
134614
to serve as a ship's cook at Candia and in the neiglibouring islands. Yet, when Sigismund, King of Hungary and Km poro r of Ger- many, with whom he had made acquaintance in Prussia, lost the battle of Nicopolis, in conflict with the Turks, we find Oswald in his company, escaping with difficulty from the slaughter. Towardi the year 1400 he returned home to arrange bis affairs, and his fatber having died about tbis time, the brothers Michael, Oswald, and Leonhard, divided the mheritance. Michael took
Trostburg and W olkenstein (at the head of the Groden Thal); Oswald, Hauenstein and Castelruth ; and Leonhard, goods and money, with which he afterwards bonghi A ich ach, a castle on thè por- phyry plateau, near the south face of the Schiern, Oswald then appointed a »teward over bis property, and recom- utenced his adventure« aa a voluntcer in the wars of that * • Di« Stadt Bozen und ihre Umgebungen,’ von Beda Weber. Botzen, 1840.
