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arms folded at the stern, and told them that they might
capsize the boat as soon as they pleased, when I should
swim to a landing-place and walk back over the rocks;
showing my map and compass to prove that I could
find the way. The partially drunken man became
almost sober, and offered me some brandevin by way
of conciliation; this of course I refused, but I took
an oar and pulled, and we now made some progress,
until after rounding a projecting arm of the mountains,
when we became exposed to the full force of the wind.
The comparatively sober man pointed to a track over
the rocks which leads to Lunden, the station we were
bound for, and I gladly got ashore at the first
practicable landing-place, paid them the price agreed for the
whole journey, and walked on.

They had taken me about half way, and it was
growing dark and raining. At about ten o’clock I
reached a little village, and found that it was not Lunden,
but Norum, with its church close by. It grew very
dark, and I had much difficulty in keeping the track;
but I walked on till past midnight, passing many houses
and much cultivated land. I inquired at several of
these houses, but such inquiry is a more difficult matter
th an might appear to any one who is unsophisticated
in matters of Norwegian domestic architecture; for
bells, knockers, locks, and bolts, are equally unknown,
and all the houses are in the utter darkness of a wet
cloudy night. I opened one door and called out, but
got 110 answer ; then I stepped forward and found it full
of hay. Trying another, I found that the inhabitants

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