An English fisherman--The haunted mill--The tourist’s purchase--Noah’s good fortune--The Strand Fjord--A woman’s curiosity--The heroine of our book--A Norwegian seaman--The mistaken mansion--The Aurdal church--Frydenlund Station--A roadside halt--The appreciated gift--The severe young lady--The kind-hearted peasant--Krœmmermoen--Impulse and reason 449
The gipsy signal--Our Australian meat--The fair poetess--Our friend from Eisbod ill--The Rye’s unwell--The Lehnsmœnd of Bang--The ferryman and son--We cross to Beina--Tatersprog--A kind family--Storsveen Station--Secluded valley--A tourist lels us--Esmeralda’s adventure--The peasant women’s song--Sorum Station--Tents pitched by a lagoon--Nœs--No horseboat--Impromptu horseboat--How we got across--A river scene 460
We leave the Beina--The Lille pige--Any port in a storm--The fairies’ visit--The Spirilen--Ytre Aadalen Val--Large bondegaard--Heen woodland camp--Evening visitors--The Hönefos--Intelligent postmaster--Norderhoug church--Halt near Vik--The gipsies’ political philosophy--Noah and the philanthropist Steens Fjord--The Krogkleven--Beautiful gorge--Camp near the King’s View 477
Summer waning--Norwegian scenery--Splendid views--The cross fire--Sorte Död--Romantic camp--Mandy’s a Rye--The tourist’s dog--The Hobbenengree’s surprise--The Baron at Bœrums Verk--Snake killed near our tent--Our last night in camp--Adieu, camp life 490
Christiania--Generous offer--Advice we do not take--The paper-viken fishermen--Christophersen’s--Norway, farewell--Donkeys’ accommodation--Want of feeling--Our steward--The gipsies’ friends--The Spanish courier--The literary American--The gipsies’ mal de mer--The donkeys in a smoke room--The lost necklace--England’s shore--To our readers 500
Alluring promises--Compliment to Englishmen--True sketches of gipsy life--The gipsies’ origin--Yet a mystery--Esmeralda--Noah and Zachariah--Before the curtain--The end 511
APPENDIX I. 517 APPENDIX II. 527 APPENDIX III. 529 APPENDIX IV. 532 APPENDIX V. 538
⁂ The engravings are by Edward Whymper, author of “Scrambles amongst the Alps,” and have been taken from sketches made by the author during his wanderings in Norway, or from photographs obtained by him specially for this work.