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_TENT LIFE WITH ENGLISH GIPSIES IN NORWAY._
_TENT LIFE WITH ENGLISH GIPSIES IN NORWAY._
MEMBER OF THE ENGLISH ALPINE CLUB; NORSKE TURIST FORENING; AND FELLOW OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
_FIVE FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS, THIRTY-ONE SMALLER ILLUSTRATIONS, AND MAP OF THE COUNTRY, SHOWING ROUTES_.
HENRY S. KING & CO., 65, CORNHILL, & 12, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON.
[_The Right of Translation is reserved by the Author._]
We awoke one morning; our gipsies were gone; our camp was gone; no light shining through as we lay in our tent. No freshness of the morning air; no wafted perfume of fragrant wild flowers; no music of the waterfall in the glen below. We were left to pursue the pathway of our journey alone.
Yet our notes _de voyage_ remained to us. Impressions caught on the wayside of travel--written by the light of actual circumstance--we give them to our readers. They are a true episode in a life.
Norway--Our gipsy tent--Tent fittings--Cooking apparatus--Commissariat--Gipsies’ tent--Bagage de luxe--Weight of baggage--Transit--Donkeys--Our party--Esmeralda 1
Gipsy equipment--Norwegian gipsies--Prœsten Eilert Sundt--The Hull steamer--The tourist’s friend--Our gipsy song 11
A friend’s misgiving--Dark forebodings--A sleepless night--The railway station--The Albion--A philosopher--The street boy--Distinguished travellers 19
England’s farewell--Summer tourists--The chevalier--Seafaring--A gipsy reception--Change of plans--Norwegian pilot--The Birmingham bagman--Inducement to authorship--Strange wills--A sailor’s philosophy--Icelandic language--Prognostications 26
A seaman’s adventures--The unfortunate tourist-An apt quotation--Freemasonry--Christiansand--Past recollections--The Runic stone--Overpayment--Two salmon fishermen--A traveller’s curiosity--Norwegian snakes--Scenery--We are one--Golden opinions 36
Mariner’s life--The evasive answer--A true presentiment--The King of Norway and Sweden--The beautiful fjord--Gipsy music--A custom-house difficulty--Another Freemason--Appropriate verses Christiania--Horse money--17, Store Strandgade 46