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The Fakes on the mail-steamers arc reckoned by mileage, the first
cabin, which can alone be recommended, costing 40 ø. per Norwegian
sea-mile. The fare from Throndhjem to Bode,r (76 sea-miles) thus amounts to
30 kr. 40 ø., to Tromse (125 M.) 50 kr., to Hammerfest (155 M.) 62 kr., to the
North Cape (171 31.; fare calculated to Vardø) 80 kr., to Vadsø (210 M.)
84 kr. Family tickets are granted at considerable reductions (see p. xix)
and return-tickets (‘Tur og Retur’) available for six months are issued at
a fare and a half for distances of 20 sea-miles and upwards. The latter,
however, should be taken for sections only (Throndhjem-Bodø,
Bodø-Tromsø, Tromsø-Hammerfest, etc.), as they do not allow the journey to
be broken, the liberty to do which is one of the great advantages of
travelling by the mail-steamers (comp. p. 229).
On voyages of three days and upwards the steamboat-companies
provide a liberal board at the rate of 5 kr. per day, including a cup of coffee
with biscuits (-karvinger’) on getting up, dejeuner with tea or half a
bottle of beer, dinner including a cup of coffee, and supper with tea or
half a bottle of beer. A pint of claret costs 1 kr. 25, half a bottle of beer
25. selters water 25 0. On shorter journeys the prices for single meals
are as follows: coffee and biscuit 35 0., dejeuner or supper IV2 kr., dinner
2 kr. 40 0. For attendance 50 ø. per day is charged. Before ordering
anything of the waiter it is advisable to consult the price-list hung up
in the cabins. — Each steamer contains a small Post Office, which also
undertakes the transmission of telegrams. The captain, pilots, and post
office officials generally understand English.
The course of the Tourist Steamers (comp. Communicationer,
No. 204, and the hills issued by the agents mentioned at p. 225) is
as follows. On Mon. and "Wed. evening they leave Throndhjem,
reaching Torghatten (p. 231) at 2p.m. on the following day. Here time is
allowed for a visit to the rocky tunnel. The steamers then pass through
the Rronesund or the Toftsund and at 8 a.m. on Wed. and Frid. reach
Bode (p. 239). At 2 p.m. on the same days they pass
Hennings-var and on Thurs. and 8at. forenoon arrive at Tromsø (p. 253),
where a landing is made for a visit to the camp of the Lapps. At
Hammerfest, which is reached on Frid. or Sun. at 8 a. m., a stay
of 3 hrs. is made. We then traverse the Mageresund, crossing the
entrance of the Porsanger Fjord, to the ‘bird-mountain’ of
Svær-holt (p. 264), from which we return to the North Cape (p. 262),
reaching it in the evening. We ascend to the top of the cape by the
light of the Midnight Sun, and next morning (Sat. or Mon.) begin
the homeward journey, the first stage of which is Lyngen fjord
(p.256; Sat. or Mon. evening). Tromsø is reached on Sun. or Tues.
morning, Svartisen (p. 238) on Mon. or Wed. afternoon, and
Throndhjem on Tues. or Thurs. afternoon. The whole excursion
from Throndhjem to the North Cape and back thus takes only
8V2 days by fbe tourist steamers.
The Fake on the tourist steamers for the whole excursion amounts
to 250-300 kr. for a berth in a state-room containing one or two berths,
250 kr. for a share of a state-room containing three or more berths, and
220-225 kr. for a berth in the saloon or in the fore-cahin. This fare includes
meals as on the mail-steamers, with the addition of half a bottle of
wine at dinner. No extra charge is made for attendance. On the tourist
steamers no reduction in the fares is made for families.
The tourist steamers are very comfortably fitted up but are as
a rule somewhat crowded. They afford the easiest and speediest
means of visiting the principal points of the Nordland, and are
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