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serpent been filleted and fried we should scarcely
have rejected it.
We now start upon the roughest section of our
journey. From Trondhjem to the mouth of the
ftomsdal we were on leading highways, with good
roads and fast stations, where now-a-days ample
provision is made for tourists; but between this
and the Sognefjord we have, as a glance at the
map will show, to travel nearly at right angles
to the general course of the valleys, to cross
ridges of hills separating these valleys, and also the
salt water that fills so many of them. Besides
this, the stations, with one or two exceptions, are
“ slow,” i. e. requiring forbud, and most of them
so rude, primitive, and small, that they cannot
possibly accommodate so large a party as ours.
Therefore I have had to carefully preconsider the
whole route and divide it into daily stages,
whereby we may arrive every evening at the
exceptional and only available stations.
The first of these is Faleidet, on the
Indvik-fjord, about thirty miles from Hellesylt; towards
this we now proceed, having sent our “ forbud ”
or courier in advance the night before to order
the horses, &c., that we require for the day.
In the course of our drive to the first station,
Thronstadt, we have a fair experience of old-
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