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where horses are not specially kept for travellers, a
man may have to climb a mountain, or walk or
run some miles to find a horse, and then must chase
and catch it. The tilsegelse for each horse is four
skillings—not quite twopence ; for fetching a man,
two skillings—or rather less than one penny.
The five boatmen stood round, and looked
curiously at the old man when he held out his hand
for the tilsegelse. I gave it to him, and then a
broad grin of satisfaction spread all over his face,
and extended to the roots of his hair as he
pocketed the penny and told me that the man
to be fetched was himself.
I was as much pleased as the old man, an
indefinite delay being prevented, and therefore we
all laughed heartily together when the conspiracy
was revealed.
Tourists who travel by this route, may find in
the dagbog at Faleidet some rather severe
strictures of mine appended to a complaint made by
a preceding tourist, who there states that in the
course of the journey we are making to-day, he
encountered “ three successive attempts at
imposition/’ This was so contrary to all my own
experience in Norway, and that of others who understand
the usages of the country, that I ventured to record
my conviction that the three successive attempts
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