A second steamboat began work in the Neckar three months after the first one was put in service.

[Figure 4] At noon we stepped ashore and bought some bottled beer and got some chickens cooked, while the raft waited; then we immediately put to sea again, and had our dinner while the beer was cold and the chickens hot.
There is no pleasanter place for such a meal than a raft that is gliding down the winding Neckar past green meadows and wooded hills, and slumbering villages, and craggy heights graced with crumbling towers and battlements.
In one place we saw a nicely dressed German gentleman without any spectacles.

Before I could come to anchor he had got underway.

It was a great pity.

I so wanted to make a sketch of him.