we know that the travellers from Antwerp made their way south to Cologne where they looked for ‘the Inn of the Vier Escara’.2 There they were to make contact with the conductor, Pero Tonnellero. His posting was the Rhine journey upriver to Mainz (Basel was another much-used transit point) in rented boats. They would sleep aboard to save money and limit the possibility of exposure and arrest. Again, the instruction was given not to raise voices (which suggests how often it was disobeyed), though having been cooped up together for so long and over such distances, it was hard to avoid outbursts.
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