fondness for coffee, which they drink without
milk or sugar. The old women, as well as the men, smoke their pipes
morning and night.

Miles.
From Christiania to Kongsberg is 41
about
From Kongsberg to the waterfall 5
Labrafoss
From Kongsberg to Bolkosoe 14
From Bolkosoe to Tindosoe 16
From Tindosoe across the lake to 16
Mael
From Mael to the waterfall 11
Rykanfoss
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CHAPTER IX

August 30th.

At seven o'clock this morning I left Christiania, accompanied by the good
wishes of my countrywoman and her husband, and went back to Gottenburg by
the same steamer which had brought me thence ten days before. I need
only mention the splendid view of a portion of Christian's Sound--also
called Fiord--which I lost on the former journey from the darkness of the
night. We passed it in the afternoon. The situation of the little town
of Lauervig is superb. It is built on a natural terrace, bordered in the
background by beautiful mountains. In front, the fortress of
Friedrichsver lies on a mountain surrounded by rocks, on which little
watch-towers are erected; to the left lies the vast expanse of sea.

We were delayed an hour at Friedrichsver to transfer the travellers for
Bergen {50} to a vessel waiting for them, as we had stopped on our
previous journey at Sandesund for the same purpose.

This is the last view in the fiord; for now we steered into the open sea,
and in a few hours we had lost sight of land. We saw nothing but land
and water till we arrived the next morning at the Scheren, and steered
for Gottenburg.

August 31st.

The sea had been rough all night, and we therefore reached Gottenburg
three hours later than usual. In this agitated sea, the surging of the
breakers against the many rocks and islets near Gottenburg has a very
curious effect.

The few travellers who could keep on their feet, who did not suffer from
sea-sickness, and remained on deck, spoke much of the dangerous storm. I
had frequently marvelled to hear people who had made a journey, if it
were even only a short one of forty to sixty leagues, relate of some
fearful storm they had witnessed. Now I comprehended the reason, when I
heard the travellers beside me call the brisk breeze, which only
occasion