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326 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
butable to the contrast with the Tellemark, or due to
the fact that this is the gay season at Christiania, and
the festival of Saint Monday, which is kept to some
extent by the artizans of Norway, I cannot positively
say; perhaps, all combined to give the city the altered
aspect it presented to me.
I was greeted with a hearty welcome by mine host of
the Hotel du Nord, who knew exactly where I had
been, how I had travelled, and almost everything
concerning me. It appears that the station keepers have
to make some sort of periodical report, of which the
newspaper editors of Christiania avail themselves to
clu’onicle the movements of the more illustrious
tourists : my want of rank was fully compensated by the
eccentricity of my mode of travelling.
On the next morning I left Christiania, and, sailing
down the fiord by a steam-packet that called at many
stations on the way, arrived at the mouth of the fiord
and bade farewell to Norway. Then, passing through
the Kattegat and Great Belt by the flat sandy shores of
Denmark, I landed at Kiel, where I was surprised at.
finding that everybody spoke German, and that the
Danish tongue was almost unknown. I felt positively
annoyed with this, in spite of a great respect for
Germany and its people, for my short, stay of a little over
two months had created a sort of Scandinavian
enthusiasm, an earnest wish to witness the consummation of
that great Scandinavian confederation of Norway,
Denmark, and Sweden, and the formation thereby of a
powerful barrier against Russian encroachment on the
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