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miles, then comes a like distance on the fiord, then 

 carrioles again, and once more a trip by water terminating 

 at Evanger, which we reach by two o'clock. Here is an 

 excellent station where you can get capital food. At the 

 very door of the house, a large river, which for some miles 

 has flowed through dark pinewoods, rolls into the fiord, and 

 here at the mouth of the rapid river, we tried, from a boat 

 which the rowers could with difficulty keep in the stream, 

 to spin a minnow for sahiion ; but the bottom was the 

 only thing my friend or I caught. We had not time to 

 try further up the river, but Evanger would unquestionably 

 be a fine place to stay in for a few days. 



From Evanger a twelve miles stage takes you to 

 Vossevangen, where is a magnificent station by the side 

 of a fine lake, the hills around which are topped by snow 

 that never melts. This place is midway between the two 

 great fiords Hardanger and Sogne, and we are now on our 

 way to the latter. Our host comes into the dining room 

 while we are taking our evening meal, with a string of 

 twenty or more small trout, four or five ounces in weight, 

 which he said it had taken him an hour to catch ; but I 

 should not advise anyone who goes to Norivay for fishing 

 to stay at Vossevangen, however tempting the house and 

 the fare may be. In our case we had no intention of staying, 

 and an hour or two on the river next morning from about 

 five o'clock, settled us in our determination to move on. 

 Still we lingered about the place rather longer than was 

 necessary, and it was near mid-day when we got our cart. 

 The first station is Tvinde, where is a magnificent fall four 

 or five hundred feet high ; here we had a long delay 



