Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - CHAPTER I. Contrasts — Development of Norwegian tourist traffic — Passengers on the ‘Argo,’ and their tub of introduction — Whales — The Norwegian coast — Stavanger — Glacier vestiges in the High Street — Bergen — Indoor ivy — A Church of England Service conducted in the spirit of Primitive Christianity — Northward Ho! — Aalesund — Christiansund — Delay and disappointment — Trondhjem — Northern luxury — The Cathedral — The Falls of the Nid — A terraced valley — Prosperous farmers — The “Störhaus”— Glacial origin of the terraces.
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his frequent pitchings down the companion ladder,
and was finally put to bed by myself and my one
fellow passenger, a Norwegian stonemason. The
saloon passengers were six in number, and all
invisible.
The ‘Argo,’ though an inferior specimen of the
steadily improving “Wilson liners,” is vastly
superior to the wretched ‘Oscar.’ She was crowded
with passengers fore and aft, especially in the
ladies’ cabin, and everything on board indicated a
wonderful development of tourist traffic since 1856.
In consideration of the share which ‘Through
Norway with a Knapsack’ has had in effecting
this development, Messrs. Wilson and Sons very
liberally presented me with a free passage to
Bergen.
Most of the passengers were good specimens of
modern English manhood; members of the Alpine
Club, col-climbing clergymen, yachtsmen, and
sportsmen of the vigorous type who hunt their
game as well as kill it. The majority were young
men born and reared in what a fine writer would
call “the lap of luxury,” and sufficiently sated
thereby to rejoice in turning their backs upon
Mayfair, in order to refresh their souls and bodies
by wholesome struggle with the invigorating
hardships of Scandinavian sport and travel.
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