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of Tromsö, after an absence of more than two
months. The inhabitants then keep holiday and
celebrate his return with gun firing and much
festivity.
During our stay here the ladies did a good deal
of shopping and were well satisfied with the result.
The unexpected and exceptional coldness of this
summer created a demand for extra woollen
shawls, &c. These were purchased at about the
same prices as in London. Collars, cuffs, and such
small wares, are also supplied in abundant variety
in large and well-appointed shops at corresponding
prices. The drapers of Tromsö compete
successfully with those of London.
I purchased a Sheffield-made pocket knife of
rather peculiar pattern for one dollar (4s. 6d.), and
was somewhat surprised on returning to see the
same knife marked at 5s. 6d. in a London shop
window. To be thus beaten in the sale of an
article of English manufacture by competitors
within the Arctic circle is by no means creditable
to London shopkeepers. The London shop in
question was in the “West End,” and is one of
those established to supply the class of people who
now deal so largely at co-operative stores. The
shopkeepers of this neighbourhood may fairly ask
themselves whether there is any natural
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