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general, and the whalers in particular, understand
this matter full well and might be trusted. Rather
more ventilation than they are accustomed to
extort from the builders of whaling ships would be
indispensable to English and American tourists;
but they need not waste any capital on
bird’s-eye-maple panels, nor the tomfoolery of gilded
mouldings and plate-glass ornamentation of the saloon,
upon which so much is commonly expended in
British and American passenger ships. Half the
cost of this, expended upon the luxury of a
bathroom, would be well appreciated by all civilized
travellers of any nationality, not only in these, but
in every other vessel that carries passengers from
any part of the world to anywhere else.
We reached Trondhjem at about 1.30 a.m. on
Friday, 7th of August. I am certainly not
exacting in my demands upon hotel keepers, but seeing
that we had been guests already at the Hôtel
d’Angleterre, and were a large party, including so
many ladies, I did expect that the telegram we
sent the day before, bespeaking beds, &c., would
have received some attention; the host knowing
that we had made a long sea voyage since we left
his house, and also knowing within an hour or
two when the packet would arrive. Instead of
this the house was closed, nobody seemed to expect
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