CONTENTS. Miseries of a Screw Steamer Sea Sickness: Men and Pigs Hamburgh - Kiel - Excellence of the Nor- wegian Mail Steamers - Training Ship for Naval Officers - Christiania Fiord - Fears of Russian Ag- Character of Norwegian Peasantry - Sunday Groups - The Stalheim-foss and Sevle-foss - Vosse- Evanger and the Evanger Vand — Bolstad- ören The Bolstad Fiord-Curiosity and Simplicity PAGE View of Bergen - Population - A Room in the Roof - Houses in Bergen - A Wedding-Smoking in the Streets- The Fish Market Stock Fish Ware- - - - Town of Trondhjem The Cathedral · The Grave Garden Start southwards - Norwegian Roads again - A Funeral A Caller The Miösen Lake Minde Railroad to Christiania - Eidsvold - The Norwegian Constitution Story of the Measure of 1821 for the Abolition of Hereditary Nobility - Car- A MONTH IN NORWAY. burgh Kiel CHAPTER I. Miseries of a Screw Steamer-Sea Sickness: Men and Pigs - Ham- -- Necessity for a It was on Friday morning, the 13th of August, that we staggered on shore at Hamburgh from the good shipChevy Chase,' screw steamer, after a most terrific passage of three days and two nights across from Newcastle. The long comparatively smooth sail up the Elbe had indeed given our prostrate energies time for a partial revival, but we had had a fearful gale, and the deck still seemed to rock beneath us, and we still seemed to feel the monotonous thump of the screw in our ears, even after we had dropped anchor and the welcome grating of the shore-going boat was heard along side. Never let any one who sails in a screw steamer choose a berth near the stern where the screw works; get as far from it as possible; nothing can describe the torture inflicted by its horrible "thuds" on the head of the sea-sickness stricken wretch who lies in agony above it; it feels like a second pulse beating with sledge hammer violence in his own throbbing temples. B There were but two passengers on board besides ourselves; an English boy who lived in Germany, and a German gentleman who lived in England. Of the regular crew, the most remarkable member was a black and tan terrier, who belonged-as the captain told us-more to the ship than he did himself; for he had found her "on the ship's books" when he joined, and she had been there before all the rest of the crew as well. How she originally came to attach herself to the 'Chevy Chase' no one knew; but she never misses a passage in her now. On the steamer's arrival at Hamburgh or Newcastle, she immediately goes ashore, always returning in time for the boat's departure. During this passage she employed herself in resenting with a great display of energy the unwarrantable intrusion of the spray which came continually dashing over the deck, and kept for hours flying at it, and trying to bite, worry, and shake it, in a way ludicrous enough to raise a smile even on sea-sick lips indignation and fatigue, however, after a time exhausted her, and for the last few hours of the gale the salt intruder came on board unchallenged and unworried. It is a delightful peculiarity of sea-sickness that its effects are pretty strictly confined to its own peculiar element; the demon generally leaves you free, a little weak and giddy perhaps, the moment you step on shore; and you are quite ready to laugh at your own recent utter prostration, and almost to disbelieve it. We Lords of the Creation, however, appear not to be the greatest sufferers from this malady. |