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CHAPTER XVII.
The Randsfjord — The corruptions of civilization — A mining and timber
district — Norwegian roughs — Drammen and drunkenness —
Christiania — Magnitude of our exploit — My theory of our
exemption from mishaps — The home sympathy of Englishmen with
Norway — Limit of numbers in Norwegian travelling parties —
How to obtain the highest degree of enjoyment and advantage in
overland Norwegian travelling — Glaciation again — Gottenburg
and London.
August 30th.—A half hour’s drive after an early
breakfast brings us to Odnaes, the northern port
of the Randsfjord, on which we embark by the
little steam-packet which navigates its whole length
(about forty-six miles), in communication with the
railway at the other end.
This lake is not unlike Windermere. We dine
at an hotel near the Randsfjord railway station,
and now, on taking tickets and resigning all
luggage responsibilities by the easy device of
consigning everything to the charge of a railway
porter, I seem to have fully re-entered the regions
of prosaic ordinary civilization, where human
helplessness may be readily developed into absolute
imbecility, provided its victim is supplied with
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