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They kindly offered further information, and to
guide us to the pavilion or Belvedere before
mentioned. They also accompanied us in other
excursions. One is a gold and silversmith who had
hitherto been a journeyman, but is now beginning
business for himself; the other a shoemaker. Both
are well-bred gentlemen, and well deserve the
esteem with which they are remembered by all
my six companions. On behalf of these ladies
and myself I now thank them most cordially.
Of course we visited the Lapp encampment up
the Tromsdal, a valley of the mainland, opening
nearly opposite to the town. The difference
between this summer and that of 1856 was strikingly
shown by the condition of this valley. Instead of
the oppressive heat and clouds of musquitoes we
had a cold damp atmosphere and clouds of Scotch
mist. Although nearly a fortnight later, the snow
had so recently thawed from the bottom of the
valley that the path by which I had first walked
was a deep mud swamp. Two English ladies, who
were stopping at the Hôtel du Nord when we
arrived engaged a guide to conduct them to the
camp. They walked some distance up the valley,
when the guide told them that it was impossible
to proceed farther; that they would sink to their
waists in bog, &c. They returned without seeing
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