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If I were a Norwegian I should point to the
encampments of these peaceful, defenceless little people as the
noblest monuments of my country’s honour: monuments
more worthy of the nation’s pride than the trophies of a
thousand victories on the battle-field.
We started again about midnight. The weather was
excessively hot. During the hottest part of the day
the thermometer stood at 77° in the cabin, at 92° in
the röh lugar, or smoking-saloon, a little cabin built
on deck, and 108° in the sun: on shore, in the valleys,
it must doubtless have been much hotter. The contrast
of this glaring Italian, or, I might almost say, Brazilian
sky, with the snow-clad rocks and glaciers dipping
almost to the sea-edge, is very striking. It was a
continual source of fresh wonderment; one of the few
scenes which one does not become accustomed to, but
retains its novelty day after day.
Among the incidents on board, was a discussion on
the relative importance of the study of Latin and
Scandinavian as a key to English. My own opinion
of the matter is that the idea of studying any language
as a means of understanding another, is absurd. Every
language has its own special laws and characteristics,
and these are best studied in its own classics, and not
in those of any other language. It is true that there
are certain general laws common to all languages—the
laws of thought in their relations to the faculty of
speech; but these are far better illustrated by English
than by either Latin or Greek, inasmuch as English is
compounded of so many other languages, and of the
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