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Mission, to whom the house belongs. The hotel,
the hostess, and the Mission generally, are
evidently unpopular in the town. In thus securing
the only hotel, the Mission probably calculates
upon obtaining considerable influence, but has not
succeeded. There are scarcely any people in the
world less likely to be won back to Romanism
than the Norwegians. A commercial association
for the cultivation and sale of water-melons would
have about the same prospects of success in Arctic
Norway as a Jesuit propaganda.
After the few hours of semi-sleep, which in
Arctic summer time represents a night’s rest, we
explore the town. It has so much developed since
my former visit that I had some difficulty in
recognizing it. It appeared to me to have made
greater commercial and general progress during
that period than any town I have visited in
Norway. This impression is fully confirmed by
subsequent inquiry into its statistics. It was founded
in 1794. In 1816 it had but 300 inhabitants. At
the time of my former visit the numbers had risen
to nearly 2000, and now they reach 5000. I may
fairly venture to describe Tromsö as the metropolis
of the Arctic world, as there is no other town of
equal magnitude and importance anywhere within
the Arctic circle.
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