Count Caprioli's Wonderful Adventures at Sea

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A Startling Discovery</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>While rummaging around in the case-mates of one of the mightiest Austrian border castles some youths discovered a secret compartment in the toolbox of a cannon dating back to the time of the Turkish invasion. They broke it open and found a letter and a number of diaries written in antiquated Hungarian. On closer examination it was found that the letter and the diaries originated from the hand of a valet named Janos Pelegrin.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This proved without doubt that the mysterious count Caprioli secret agent to the emperor's court in Vienna really existed.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The letter of the valet Pelegrin:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My dear young friends!</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I am writing to you because if anyone at any time should find this letter and my diaries then it could only have been one of you. The older ones don't look for secrets any more. Which one of the grown ups could believe that count Caprioli rode through the ocean on a shark that my count melted the cannons of an enemy ship with a lightning bolt or that he loaded the cannons of the Fantoma with Dutch cheese balls.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yesterday we landed in St. Petersburg. The Russian czar admired our Fantoma and made a bet with the count more fantastic and dare devilish I ever experienced with him. I don't know how he wants to win it. Surely it will be extremely dangerous and adventurous. That is why I want to save my diaries first. I will hide them and continue in a new one.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Your old Janos Pelegrin</span></p>