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islands, although scarcely a trace of cultivation could be 

 seen. At one point the steamer upon signal slackened a 

 little, and there came out from behind an island a small 

 boat containing several stout young men and one elderly 

 woman. The men all came on board the steamer, with 

 their little baggage ; a parting adieu and tear told, in the 

 universal language, of a family tie separated, if not sun- 

 dered for ever, and the woman returned alone to the 

 shore. 



'The captain was sociable and inquisitive, and upon 

 our enquiring for Evois, he said it would be found in the 

 suburbs of Helsingfors, half a day's voyage beyond Hango. 

 Arriving at Abo, on the afternoon of the 10th, we spent 

 several hours in looking about the city. It has a popula- 

 tion of about 22,000, and is the seat of a Naval Academy. 

 The preparations for a National Exhibition were going on, 

 and our steamer brought a large number of agricultural 

 machines and the like, intended for display. At a book- 

 store we found an elaborate map of the country, and then 

 ascertained with certainty that Evois was at least a hun- 

 dred miles north of Helsingfors, and thirty miles from the 

 nearest railway station at Tavastehus, with no regular line 

 of conveyance between. 



' Getting under way, with the first appearance of day- 

 light, which here means between one and two o'clock in 

 the morning, we continued our route among the islands, 

 and late in the forenoon arrived at Hango, from whence a 

 railroad runs by an inland route to St. Petersburg. As 

 the steamer was approaching the wharf a group, consisting 

 of two ladies and several gentlemen, stood looking intently, 

 as if expecting the arrival of friends, and upon an answer 

 to their enquiries from the captain, all eyes were directed 

 upon the writer, who stood upon the wheel-house by his 

 side. It was presently known that one of these ladies was 

 a sister of Director Blomqvist of the School of Forestry at 

 Evois, who having been informed from Stockholm of our 

 intention to stop there, had come to advise going on to 

 Helsingfors. One of the gentlemen was Professor Doner, 



