CHAPTER FIFTEEN 



THE summer of 1890 Mrs. Jordan and I spent in 

 Europe, Professor Jeremiah W. Jenks of our chair 

 of Economics being my associate in conducting a 

 group of students and friends on lines similar to 

 those adopted in earlier tours. 



Landing at Antwerp, we crossed by a fabulously 

 uncomfortable boat to Harwich and then proceeded 

 northward with only brief stops in England and 

 Scotland, as Norway was our first objective. At 

 Edinburgh we embarked in threatening weather for 

 Bergen. This trip, one of the most disagreeable in 

 all my experience, is perhaps worth noticing for the 

 lesson it affords. With the Britannia, a long, slim, 

 unballasted craft operated by an engine far too large, 

 so that it shook the vessel from stern to stern at 

 every movement, all else had been sacrificed in the 

 interest of speed. Tossed by a terrific storm in the 

 cross currents of the offshore islands of Norway, 

 she was almost helpless. Passengers and crew 

 including the captain, who said he had not been sick 

 before for forty years all succumbed ; the trip, 

 moreover, was prolonged to over double the scheduled 

 time. The next day the Bergen papers discussed 

 the scbaking which had made this experiment in 

 swift transit so distressing. The following summer 

 we saw a brief notice of the Britannia's wreck and 

 loss, though it appeared that by some lucky chance 

 all aboard were saved. 



Norway I myself had already twice visited, but 



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