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In illustration of this feeling he pointed to the
Northerners sitting on another part of the deck,
and said: “I associate with them while out here
in Europe, and have no doubt that they are very
good fellows; but if they were travelling South and
called on me at my house, I would not know them,
dare not on my neighbours’ account be friendly
with them; but if you or any other Englishman
with whom I have thus travelled were to call
upon me, my house would be your home so long
as you chose to stop.”
The Northern men obviously understood all this,
and accepted the situation. Meeting here on
neutral ground, both evidently felt the sadness of
this unnatural estrangement very bitterly, and did
their best to gloss it over in the meantime.
I feel bound to confess that I have felt myself
considerably snubbed during this Arctic voyage.
All my companions and fellow passengers had of
course read ‘Through Norway with a Knapsack,’
and we had a copy on board. They therefore
expected to see the sea serpent, to experience
the pleasant paradox of sultry weather in Arctic
latitudes, and to take my side in the contest
about the change in the character of the light
at midnight. In all these my programme was
unfulfilled. It reminded me of my first
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