In the following century the town was twice besieged by the Hungarian king, Matthias Corvinus, and that brave prince only succeeded in the second attempt. The people of Krems seem to have become inured to warfare, for when the town was attacked in 1619, on the Bohemian Protestants invading Austria, even the women won martial glory. It is recorded that the garrison having sallied forth to give battle to the foe, they were cut off, and the Bohemians, who had got in their rear, at once sought to scale the seemingly undefended walls, “but the women, with one consent, seizing the first weapons they could find, rushed to the ramparts, and fought with such steady bravery that the enemy were at length obliged to abandon the attempt.” Krems is the easterly termination of the Wachau--the beautiful extent of the scenic Danube most readily reached by rail or boat from Vienna. Though when I was there in September and October there were not many holiday-making folk about the villages or the quiet river-side roads, it is evidently much frequented in the summer time, judging by the advertisements of “trips” to be seen in Vienna. The “discoverer” of the attractions of this lovely bit of country was, during my stay in Dürrenstein, honoured by the unveiling (9 October, 1910) of a memorial in that village. The memorial takes the form of a large, square, brass medallion portrait let into the river-side face of the rock on which the church stands. The simple inscription runs:-- “AUGUSTIN WEIGL Die Dankbare Wachau 1910” FOOTNOTES: [10] This presumably as a salutation to the workmen employed at a large ultramarine factory in the neighbourhood. CHAPTER VII THE WACHAU TO DÉVÉNY “There where the Danube broadly sweeps, ’Mid islands willow grown, The City of St. Stephen stands, An Empire’s lovely throne; While o’er the river, on the plain, Far battle echoes roll.” _From the German_