scent of the Fjeld--Plateau of the Hardanger--The Voring-Foss
--Its Grandeur--A Saeter Hut--Wonderful Wine. 341

CHAPTER XXXI.

SKETCHES FROM THE BERGENSTIFT.

Peder's Embarrassment--His Drowning--The Landlady--Morning at
Ulvik--A Norwegian Girl--Female Ugliness--Return to Vossevangen
--Indolence--Detention at Stalheim--Scenery of the Naerodal--
Postillions--On the Gudvangen Fjord--The Sogne Fjord--Transparency
of the Water--The Boatmen. 359

CHAPTER XXXII.

HALLINGDAL--THE COUNTRY-PEOPLE OF NORWAY.

Roads to Christiania--Southern Sunshine--Saltenaaset--The Church
of Borgund--Top of the Fille Fjeld--Natives on Sunday--Peculiar
Female Costume--Scarcity of Milk and Water--The Peak of Saaten--A
Breakfast at Ekre--Hallingdal--Wages of Labourers--Valley Scenery
--How _Forbuds_ are sent--General Swindling--Character of the
Norwegians for Honesty--Illustrations--Immorality--A "Cutty Sark"
--Charms of Green. 370

CHAPTER XXXIII.

TELLEMARK AND THE RIUKAN-FOSS.

The Silver Mines of Kongsberg--Roads in Tellemark--Bargaining
for Horses--The Inn at Bolkesjo--Sleeping Admonitions--Smashing
Travel--Tinoset--The Tind Lake--A Norwegian Farm-House--The
Westfjord-dal and its Scenery--Ole Torgensen's Daughter--The
Valley--A Leper--Defile of the Maan Elv--Picture of the Riukan-Foss
--Its Beauty--A Twilight View--Supper at Ole's--The Comprehension
of Man--A singular Ravine--Hitterdal--How respectable People live
--The old Church--Return to Christiania. 383

CHAPTER XXXIV.

NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

Norwegian Honesty--The Country People--Illicit Connections--The
Icelandic Language--Professor Munck--The Storthing--The Norwegian
Constitution--The Farmer-State--Conversation between a German
Author and a Swedish Statesman--Gottenburg--A Fire--Swedish
Honesty and Courtesy--The Falls of Trollhatten. 398

CHAPTER XXXV.

A TRAMP THROUGH WERMELAND AND DALECARLIA.

Our Route--Leaving Carlstad--The Scenery--Valley of the Klar Elv
--Ohlsater--Wedding Arches--Asplund--A Night Journey--Adventures
in search of a Bed--Entrance into Dalecarlia--The Farmers at
Tyngsjo--Journey through the Woods--The People at Westerdal--The
Landlord at Ragsveden--The Landlady--Dalecarlian Morality--A
Lasare--The Postillion--Poverty--A Dalecarlian Boy--Reception at
Kettbo--Nocturnal Convers