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CONTENTS.
i x
A project for Barnum—Sailing before the wind—The station
at Utne—A wonderful cup—The origin of corrugated zinc
and iron—Deference to Englishmen—The cost of boats in
Norway—How to make an economical yachting tour in
Norway—The Folgefond—Varying saltness of the fiords, and its
possible effects on animal and vegetable life, a subject for
investigation..........247
cnapter XV.
The Tyssedal and Skieggedal—Glacier ruins on a grand scale—
An unvisited region and neglected waterfalls—A singular
glacier and its mode of formation—Influence of the amount
of rainfall in determining the height of the snow-line—Odde
—On the practice of maintaining footmen and other male
domestics—Evidences of general honesty—A recently arrived
pastor—Position of the Norwegian pastor—Importance of
practical education to the clergy—A hunt for a lodging—The
Haukelid Ejelde—A wet bed—How to pass a wet night on
the fjeld—Norwegian mode of preparing coffee—A hint for
English cottagers—A returned emigrant . . . .265
Chapter XVI.
The silver brooches, &c., of the peasantry of the Tellemark—A
commercial suggestion—Painted chambers—The Tellemark
as regarded by Norwegians—The Totak Vand—Horse-racing
—The " houseman," or farm-labourer, of Norway and his
relations to the " bonder," or peasant proprietor—Social
equality of farmer and labourer—The merry-makings of
Jule time—The poor relations of our Norman aristocracy
and the royal families of Europe—Carved cottages—A region
of soft bogs—How to escape smothering in a bog—Presence
of mind attainable as an art—The " eng," or detached
hay-farm—A mud poultice........282
Chapter XVII.
A Tellemark interior—"Juno" and " Vesta"—Romance and dirt
—Sleeping in the hay—Many bedfellows of the human species
and many more of the lower animals—The irritating powers
of ants—Characteristic scenery of the Tellemark—Facilities
for extensive and profitable drainage—An old man and his
old boat—The legend of the Marie Stige—Crossing the
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