Our next stage, which was three Hungarian miles, brought us from _Igmand_ to _Rab_, thro a level country, and well cultivated. Half an hour before we enter the town, his Excellency is met by a troop of _Hussars_ well mounted, and each man carrying a small flag in his hand. _Rab_, which is the proper government of the Prince of _Baden_, is pleasantly seated at the confluence of the rivers _Rab_ and _Rabnitz_, which unite near the walls of the castle, and then in one stream immediately fall into the _Danube_. The castle is large, and well fortified with seven bastions, four cavaliers, and proportionable outworks. It contains within an ample space of ground, possessed with houses, and divided into streets, which make the best part of the city, the rest being more scattered and diffused on both sides of the _Rabnitz_. It is now about a century, since this place was taken from the Turks by a stratagem of Count _Schaurtzenburg_, who applying a petard to one of the gates in the night, at one stroke blew open the great iron door, which flew many paces within the town, and is now kept as a memorial of the fact in the cathedral church. The Turks marched in the sight of this garrison to the siege of _Vienna_, and received several shot from thence; and at their return, had the Imperialists of this place known their defeat, they might have intercepted their passage, by cutting down the bridges of the _Rab_. June xviii. His Excellency staying this day at _Rab_, I took the opportunity of visiting _Stephanus Morsai_, the reformed minister of the place. And about ten a clock Mr. Stepney, her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary at _Vienna_, with the young Earl of Bridgwater, and his brother Mr. Egerton, came to _Rab_ to meet my Lord Paget, and welcome him into these parts. June xix. This day, thro frequent villages and fruitful feilds, we continue our journey two Hungarian miles to _Hungrisch Altenburg_, a small town with fair buildings, enclosed with a wall, and seated on the river _Leyta_, which at the distance of half a mile falls into the _Danube_. Here Mr. Stepney, my Lord Paget, and some others proceed directly to _Vienna_. June xx.