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After a few days the journey continued by ship from London to Hamburg. We arrived at the Victoria Quay when the steamer was already on the Themse but was then stopped so that
we could catch up in a boat. We were taken onboard, being scolded by the crew.
In Hamburg we were supposed to go to Pastor Gleiss in St Georg. As we left the ship I gave Karl a new hat from his box and secretly threw his old, dilapidated hat overboard. When
we sat in a cab with all our luggage he suddenly said, “Where is my hat?” and wanted to get off. Only with great effort could we hold him back. In front of the house of Pastor Gleiss he kept on calling, “Where is my hat?” and wanted to run away, was almost raging and did not want to listen to anything. Three of the men working there had to hold him so that he could
not run away. He was handed over to the police and brought
to a place of safety, where he is said to have died. During our sea journey he had often been rather strange and one night
he stood in front of my bed and looked down onto me as though he wanted to harm me and only returned to his bed when I gave a loud command and this and that. It was actually dangerous and not right that I had been burdened with such a mentally disabled person.