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CHEAP SAILING BOATS.
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bearing a bowl of milk, which was given me to drink.
One of the farmers told me that the path on this, the
west side of the fiord, was so bad that I should not
reach Flesje, the point I had fixed upon for the night,
until two in the morning. lie advised me to cross, and
showed me a man going over, who rowed me across the
fiord, and refused to take any payment.
I walked on along the eastern shore, encountering
the same kind of simple curiosity and civility as before.
Being recommended to stop at a house built close on
the water’s edge, near to Ullensvang, I found it to be
the new inn of Loftliuus partly built. The portion that
is finished is very comfortable, and I was served with
ii’heaten bread and a good bed.
The next morning I took a boat. Tlie boatman had
been a sailor in an American brig, and spoke nautical
English: he had a new boat, rather a good one, adapted
for two rowers and four or five passengers, and told me
that the boat, with a pair of oars, cost 7 dollars; or
12 dollars, including mast, sails, and rudder. For 50
or 70 dollars—i.e., from 10Z. to 14/.—a "skyter," or
sloop, with a tall mast and sails, a deck, and a cabin, in
which two or three persons may contrive to sleep, can
be purchased; and for about 251., a vessel fit for sea,
in which the voyage round the North Cape might be
safely made in summer time, and even the return
journey to England. lie pointed out to me two or
three such vessels, which might pass muster at Cowes,
in foggy weather, when the absence of copper-bottom,
&c. would not be visible.
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