NORWEGIAN BARQUES 



smoking herrings and hams, for clogs, baskets, tanning, 

 dyeing, cordage, and even for making bread. 



But one of the most curious and interesting sights in any 

 seaport is sure to be an old white Norwegian or Swedish 

 sailing barque or brigantine. She will have a battered, storm- 

 beaten appearance, and is yet obviously a comfortable home. 

 The windows of the deck-house may be picked out with a 

 lurid green. The tall, slowmoving, white-bearded skipper and 

 his wife, children, and crew, not to speak of a dog and cats, 

 have their home on this veteran "• windjammer." She carries 

 them from some unpronounceable, never-heard-of port in 

 Norway, all over the world. You may see her discharging 

 a cargo of deal plank, through the clumsy square holes 

 in her stern, in a forgotten Fifeshire village, in Mada- 

 gascar, in China, or in the Straits of Magellan. All her life 

 she is engaged in this work, and her life is an exceedingly 

 long one, to judge from the Viking lines on which she is 

 built. 



Moreover, her work is done so economically that it used 

 to be much cheaper to use her cargo in Capetown than to 

 utilize the beautiful forests of the Knysna and King 

 Williamstown. 



But there are not wanting signs that the forests of Nor- 

 way, of Sweden, and even those of the United States, are 

 doomed. 



It is said that seven acres of primeval forest are cut down 

 to supply the wood which is used up in making the paper 

 required for one day's issue of a certain New York journal. 

 What a responsibility and a source of legitimate pride this 

 must be to the journalists ! Let us hope that the end 

 justifies the means. 



Boulger cal«ilates that in 1884 all the available timber 



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