2 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
Captain Fairburn, of the ‘‘ Scandinavian,” has been 
a sailor for upwards of sixty years, and is well up to 
his duties, and, what is more, extremely attentive to 
them. His employers will lose a good servant when- 
ever he retires into private life. An attentive steward 
and stewardess will be found on board, and the ewsine 
is all that can be desired. 
The average passage to Christiansand takes about 
forty-eight hours, and it requires from about seventeen 
to twenty more to Christiania. 
The fare is £4; return tickets, available for the 
whole season, are £6. There are also two steamers 
running between Hull and Bergen, one every ten days, 
I believe. The fare, if I mistake not, is £3. 
As most of the travelling in Norway is done en 
carriole, | should recommend a strong deal box in 
preference to a leather portmanteau, which does not 
get improved from the “‘skyts-boy” sitting on it. It 
should have a waterproof cover to guard against rain 
and dust, which latter enemy will otherwise penetrate 
through every little chink. Some leather straps should 
also be taken, sufficiently long to fasten the said box 
securely on to the dash-board behind, and leathern 
loops should be fixed on the covering for the straps to 
pass through. Next, a leather carpet-bag, which 
should be protected also with a waterproof cover, the 
opening being on the side, not on the top. ‘This can - 
