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have a certain number of horses daily in
readiness for tourists, and their book shows how many
have gone out at any time of the day, as each
traveller enters what he has taken. The forbud
stations are those where a tourist may wait for
two or three hours unless he sends “ forbud,” i. e.
a messenger to bespeak his requirements. This
messenger generally travels all night, carrying
with him the forbud papers or orders for all horses
and carrioles the tourist may require during the
whole of the next day.
On the Dovrefjeld road between Christiania
and Trondhjem, and also that of the Romsdal,
all are fast stations; but when so large a party
as ours arrives after some horses have already
been sent out, the limits of the resources of the
station are likely to be overpassed, and the
station-master may have to borrow horses from a
neighbouring farm. In Norway the next-door neighbour
may be a few miles distant.
Besides this, the number of beds at these stations
is limited. At many, our party would have
overtaxed the total resources of the establishment;
at. others we just filled the house, and only at
a few were there many beds to spare after we
were accommodated. I had to exercise some
generalship on this account, by learning before-
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