8 ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



clear, that the boats which throng around the steamer do 

 not seem to touch the water at all, for you can see every 

 part of them as clearly as though they were on land. 

 There is a little cargo to land here, and while this is going 

 on, you may go on shore to the Credit Bank and get your 

 money changed, which will enable you, if you wish it, to 

 start off from Bergen early next morning, instead of 

 spending all Sunday there, waiting till the banks open on 

 Monday. To one who goes to Norway for the first time, 

 I should say, certainly spend a day in Bergen, it is a 

 curious and interesting town, situated on a beautiful fiord, 

 and a place, if trout were not in view, where even more 

 than one day could be profitably spent. On my latter 

 visit, when I had come to " know my way about " pretty 

 well, my companion and myself agreed to waste no time 

 in towns, and we left Bergen, where we arrived after 

 midnight, by eight o'clock in the morning. We ordered 

 carrioles to be got ready while we breakfasted, and the 

 two curious little carriages drove up to the door soon 

 after we had finished. 



In the districts where there are no railways, and there 

 is in Norway happily only one, the carriole is the only 

 means of travel, unless you go on foot. This carriage is 

 in appearance something like a small sitz-bath, placed 

 on the end of a pair of long slender shafts, and mounted 

 on wheels. You sit in the bath with your legs stretched 

 out before you, the seat not being more than a ^qw inches 

 high ; or you can rest your feet on a cross bar, or even 

 dangle your legs between the wheels. There are no 

 springs to the vehicle, but the shafts arc long and slender. 



