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stadt. The two boys, with their horses, return,
and we go on with the others to Thune ; this latter
stage is by a road skirting the Yangs Mjosen, a
beautiful lake.
When settling with the men who brought us so
far, I found, upon making a calculation for all the
stages, that the sum demanded was strictly
correct ; and therefore I had much pleasure in writing
a testimonial in favour of the captain or
contractor for the whole cavalcade. He proved to be
a very civil and intelligent man. His name is
Andreas ’Andersen, of Tonjum; he was then
learning English, and greedily picking up every
fresh word he could find. The ladies were so well
pleased with his civility, and his desire for
improvement, that on reaching Christiania, they
purchased and forwarded to him an English and
Norsk Dictionary, which they knew would be
a most acceptable present. I hope that this
mention may be of service to him, as he fairly
deserves our hearty recommendation to other
English tourists.
While on this subject I should, however,
explain that this innovation upon the regular system
of hiring horses is not without objection. Under
ordinary circumstances, when there is no undue
pressure (such as we experienced at Lierdalsoren),
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