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the morning, without fiddling, however, as it was the 

 regimental band. We remarked that not one of the 

 officers belonging to the place were there. Indeed 

 there exists, as is but too common, a complete division 

 between the natives and soldiers. The women struck 

 us as very pretty. 



Dec. 23. Having last night met with Mr Paulus, 

 the late French consul at Christiansand, I went to 

 breakfast (by invitation) with him and his daughter, 

 in the same inn with ourselves, and was kept so long 

 there in conversation that we could not go to the 

 castle. Dined at Anker's with a large party, chiefly 

 of the same class as yesterday, but much more select. 

 Afterwards the men smoked in a room per se, then 

 cards (with chasse cafe on the table), then sandwiches 

 a visit of ten hours. Were much disgusted with 

 the barbarous way in which the master and mistress 

 seem the whole time the very slaves of the company, 

 running up and down, &c. The mercantile gentle- 

 men talk English for the most part. 



Dec. 24. -At nine o'clock went up to see the fort, 

 and the spot where Charles XII. was killed, having 

 had an order from the governor. However, we were 

 detained some time at the gate. 



He was standing near a stone looking over a small 

 rail, and a cross two feet high is upon the spot instead 

 of a low pyramid formerly placed there. On the cross 

 is cut a rude inscription" C. XII. fell. Dec. 1718." 



It is about 400 yards from the part of the castle 

 whence the shot is said to have been fired. There are 



