The Argosy — page 226: what you’re looking at

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About Norway. 209 indeed was courage and self-sacrifice; the pleasures, luxuries, and bare comforts of life all resigned; for the sake of labouring amidst a race with whom one could have nothing in common, were it not for the one common bond of death, and the awakening of the soul to the life beyond. After our short English service on board on the Sunday a small collection had been made for the good of his cause, and when the little box was handed to him, he replied in grateful tones: ‘‘ You English are so loving !” Leaving the Lapp family to lose their appetite and recover their sood humour, we proceeded to reconnoitre the streets of Tromso. Py => ——— — ~~ = — -— fs — — = . > — | NK se //]| Mhirrnasvceris ZA * m= He ZF Wt —— ———— : : = — = = S$ SpSVSs= = os ———————_—_— —_ S — = SS = — 7 —_ SLEDGING. Some of them looked green and lively, the mountain ash and wild cherry tree planted on either side, like a boulevard. Passing by the cathedral, where next day the ordination would take place, we went up a long, white, dusty road, and turning into a small plantation of birch trees, reached a pavilion, whence we obtained a splendid view of the surrounding neighbourhood. The bright, sparkling water lay sleeping in the broad sunshine, land-locked by the hills, whose graceful outlines undulated against a background of sky. . In the harbour were boats of many countries, if one might judge by the flags that fluttered in the breeze, and enlivened the scene not a little. Most picturesque of all, out in the middle of the water, our little steamer, the Michael Krohn, was unloading cargo on the one side and taking it in on the other. The town lay below us, and we looked VOL. XXX, P CONIC OOO SS (C(O)