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118 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
with its rich pasturages, its high civilization, where
young ladies play the airs of Verdi’s last opera, and
expand their skirts to Parisian dimensions, is in about
the same latitude as that in which Franklin and his
comrades are probably frozen.
Alten has been specially gay of late. Mr. Thomas,
an Englishman connected with the Alten copper-mines,
has been recently elected a member of the Storthing,
or Parliament. We are told that he is the first
Englishman who has been made a member of the Storthing,
and that the event was celebrated with much festivity,
and great consumption of champagne.
We saw the midnight sun again, and an hour after
arrived at Hammerfest, the northernmost town in the
world. After leaving; the Kaafiord the grandeur of
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the scenery begins to decline; about Hammerfest it is
comparatively monotonous and uninteresting.
In order to afford the reader full information of the
cost of everything, I append a copy of the steward’s
account against me for provisions consumed on the
way:—
" Han vied yardl bortes."
D. M. s.
1 frokost . 0 1 8
1 the . . 0 0 8
1 catfee . 0 0 12
1 middag . 0 o 12
1’kal flk. vin . 0 1 12
1 aften . 0 1 6
2 the . . 0 0 16
1 middag . 0 2 12
1 fl. vin . 0 3 0
1 aften . 0 1 6
2 the . . 0 0 16
1 frokost . 0 1 8
2 the . . 0 0 16
1 middag . 0 2 12
1 aften " . . 0 1 6
I), sr. s.
2 the . . . .0016
1 frokost . . .018
2 caffee . . . 0 0 20
1 middag . . . 0 2 12
1 aften . . .016
2 the . . . .0016
1 fl. öl . . . . 0 0 10
1 frokost . . . 0 1 8
2 the . . . .0016
1 middag . . . 0 2 12
1 aften . . .016
2 the . . . .0016
1 middag . . . 0 2 12
i fl. vin ... 0 1 12
7 4 8
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