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hich with the canoes would be a long day's work; as we had the natives to contend with, w

m; but that it is quite possible to make them slower by losing your temper, or taking any vigorous

ting less every year. A full-grown man does not seem to need much food, certainly not as much as an Englishman, and prefers that of the worst kind, conveyed to the mouth at the end of a knife-blade. We have never noticed any description of food which he does not make sour, rather than eat it when sweet. Bread, milk, cream, an

est,* and his kindness and hospitality are beyond praise. This morning, however, the laziness was the quality chiefly conspicuou

g drinks, and straps or pieces of cord, which may be c

left down a steep hill, we crossed the Laagen by a long and rather handsome bridge, and then up a winding road on the further side, all looking very pretty on such a glorious day. The road became more picturesque the further we got from Lillehammer, eve

a delicious meal off trout, strawberries and cream, a

omposed of barley-meal. It is simply meal and water baked on a large, flat, circular iron, and is about the thickness of cardboard, of a brownish col

t last obtained his violet ink, but Esau was foiled in

ast-say thirty feet. Then cut down a thirty-foot pine tree; take the bark off it; tie a string to the thin end and a hook to the string; stick a worm on the hook, and go forth to the strife. When the fish bites, they strike with great rapidity and violence,

for this stage we had a bad, shying, jibb

ved near there. He told us their name was Wunkle, but the man at the next station said it was P

isappeared: and as the road got worse, so did the hired conveyances; so that we were gradually reduced from the gorgeous double cariole with red cushions with which we st

ke's army, and 'will go anywhere and do anything,' only you must give them plenty of time. We mounted to the station, a wretched little place, and being hungry ordered coffee and eggs, for which repast we paid twopence-halfpenny each, and then at ten o'clock got a man to carry our few small t

ian student on a walking tour, who spoke a little English and wal

nveyed to our minds by seeing four pairs of socks hanging out of the upstair windows to dry; at which sight we began to suspect that things were going to turn out unpleasant for us; but at last we got a room with one very small bed between us. We tossed for this bed, and the Skipper won; so Esau passed the night on the floor, on a sheepskin, and was very comfortable-at l

he cattle are driven during the summer, so t

to expect nightly visitations from other foes,

ills on the south side not far away are so steep that they could not be climbed by all the branded alpenstocks that Switzerland ever produced. Looking to the east the gorge is very wild and grand, covered with pine trees