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of the valley and commanding grand views of
the Romsdalshorn and the witch-crags. It is
deservedly a favourite resting place for tourists; for
besides providing all that is demanded by any
reasonable people in the matter of hotel comforts,
the proprietor holds a salmon river and. shooting
ground for the benefit of his guests. We find
more than a dozen English tourists already there;
some of them were our fellow passengers on
the Haakon Adelstein.
We English have somehow acquired a
reputation for reserve, but there is no justification for
this in the present generation. If such reserve
ever existed as a national characteristic, our
railways and other modern facilities and habits of
trowelling have quite destroyed it. Here we
found a number of strangers all as united and
sociable as the guests in a private house, and I find
the same everywhere in the course of travelling.
The only “ stuck-up ” and unsociable people we
have met in the course of our journey was a small
party of Belgians and Frenchmen, who were
travelling to the North Cape with a tolk, and trying
to assume the airs of noblemen in disguise. The
contrast between their sulkiness and the genial
joviality and unaffected good-fellowship that so
freely prevailed among the English community on
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