nine o'clock in the evening
There were no other passengers on board and , telling the story they had agreed upon , they were soon on good terms with the boatmen . Including the windings of the river , it was some eighty miles to Ratisbon . The boat was towed by two horses , and glided pleasantly along , taking three days on the passage . They bought food at the villages where the craft lay up for the night , and arrived at Ratisbon at nine o'clock in the evening . There they found no difficulty in obtaining a lodging at a small inn , where no questions , whatever , were asked . A short day 's journey took them to Neumarkt , a tramp of upwards of twenty miles . It was a longer journey on to Bamberg , and two days later , to their satisfaction , they entered Coburg .