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it passes. Tn fact, I know not a nicer nor cheaper summer 

 for the English tourist than to come to Gothenburg and 

 travel up to Stockholm in this manner. He will not 

 require a guide an inch of the way . as all the captains on 

 these boats speak English. 



There are no real English hotels in Gothenburg or Stock- 

 holm, but in most there is a courier who speaks English. 

 Living in a hotel at either place will be about as dear as in 

 a second-rate London hotel. Blonds hotel and the Gotha 

 Kalian are perhaps the best in Gothenburg Hotel Ryd- 

 berg in Stockholm. 



I should decidedly recommend any Englishman (espe- 

 cially a sportsman) landing in Gothenburg, if he want any 

 advice or assistance, at once to call upon my old friend, Mr. 

 Duff, British Vice- Consul, a first-rate sportsman himself, and 

 who is always willing to help an English traveller. 



The English traveller who lands in a foreign country with 

 a good letter of credit in his pocket will find little difficulty 

 in getting on, and if he is only visiting Sweden for the pur- 

 pose of seeing the country, and of obtaining a little chance 

 fishing and shooting at any place where he may stop, he had 

 better hire a travelling servant in Gothenburg who speaks 

 English (at 3s. 6d. per day and his keep), and when once in 

 leading strings, leave all to his guide. He will see the 

 country in this manner, and I dare say obtain a little sport- 

 ing whenever he chooses to pull up. But as this book is in- 

 tended for a guide to the English sportsman whose means 

 are too limited to obtain him good sport in England, and, 

 therefore, seeks a new field where he may be able to enjoy a 

 little sport and yet live cheaply and comfortably for a length 

 of time, I shall endeavour to point out to such a one the 

 cheapest and best way to go to work in settling up the coun- 

 try where fair sport is to be had, and where he may live at 

 a moderate expense \ and in a future chapter, I shall enter 

 more fully into the fishing and shooting of this country, 

 telling him exactly what sport he may expect to find, what 

 localities are best to seek it in; and if he only follows my ad- 

 vice, I do not fancy he will be altogether disappointed. 



