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194 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
ascended them to take a general survey, in the hope
of seeing on the other side a lake which is marked on
the map, and which would serve to verify my bearings.
The lake, or rather two lakes are there, but I was
beyond the western extremity, instead of being at the
east end or beyond it, as I had calculated. This was
very puzzling, and I lost confidence in my map—not in
myself of course. Only those who have wandered alone
over trackless mountains can understand the painful
feeling of having relied upon a map, and then finding
it deceitful; it is like being jilted after a long and
confident courtship. The sense of doubt and
confusion, the hesitation as to whether to consult the map
any more, or, if consulting it, to look for details, or
only to rely on general bearings, is indescribably
perplexing and vexatious. Then I had started with
such confidence, the track seeming so clear: the first
half of the distance it followed a little rivulet, at the
Loordalen saeters it turned at right angles, and over a
ridge to a lake, and then over another to the long valley
of the Vaage Vand. There seemed no possibility of
mistake, so that I did not even take the common
precaution of filling my pockets with food, and on passing
the saeters made no halt for milk; though my
breakfast was only a few chips of fladbröd and some " smoer,’*
pronounced " smear," a good expressive English name
or Norwegian butter.
After some halt, and hesitation between choosing the
east or the west end of the lakes, I determined upon
taking a middle course, and crossing the stream that
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