text: " At Freyburg they encountered a phenomenon in the shape of a poetical German waiter--and a poet too in the English language though he had never been in England nor much among English; but the waiter's effusions the subject of which was the cathedral of Freyburg were never destined to reach England but now lie with the rest of Mr Waterton's travelling goods and chattels in the wreck of the Pollux at the bottom of the Mediterranean sea