June xvi.
From Koes, where his Excellency lodged the last night, in an house of Count Estzerhazi, Palatin of Hungary, it is one Hungarian mile to Igmand, at which we arrive by eight a clock this morning. And one mile from thence toward the right hand we stop to see the city and fort of Komora. In a post calash we arrive on the banks of the Danube by ten a clock, and passing over in a boat enter the city, which is seated on the point of the island Schut, where it is washed on one side by the Danube itself; and on the other by that branch of it, which takes the name of Wag, from that river falling into it not far above the city Komora. The extreme point of this island is possessed by the castle and fort, consisting of four bastions, and an angle at the farther end, which represents the figure of a tortoise. Before the gate and drawbridge there is a place of arms, and before that another strait fortification with two bastions and an half moon, added by the present Emperor. This was the last bulwark against the Turks, before the success of the last war, and is called the Virgin Fort, in token of its having never been taken by the enemy. To perpetuate the memory of this, the statue of a virgin is erected in one angle of that bastion, which is on the left hand at the entrance of the place. After this view of the castle we content ourselves with a slighter view of the town, which appears neat and compact; and by two a clock return to his Excellency’s quarters at Igmand, the whole way lying over a green, naked, and level plain. In the castle of Komora I found the three following inscriptions, two of them in Latin, and the third in Greek, which are cut upon stone coffins.
D. M.
M. VAL. VALERIANI LEG.
IIII FL. VIXIT AN. XLII
ET M. VAL. VLPIO EQ. PV
BL. FIL. VIXIT AN. VIII SIMV
L CONDITIS VLPIA PARA
TIANE MARITO ET FILIO
ET VLPIA VALERIA FILIA