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record that may appear miraculous or superhuman. 

 Still it must be allowed that other travellers in 

 Norway keep Mr. Robertson's report in countenance. 

 Some of the incidents of the expedition will be best 

 told in his own words : 



" If we sent word," he says, " from one station to 

 another to have a conveyance at any hour, they were 

 bound to have it for us. On one occasion we had to 

 cross a lake in a rowing boat to the opposite side. 

 We had written that we would require a conveyance 

 some time between twelve p.m. and one o'clock in 

 the morning. We arrived about the time appointed, 

 and two horses in harness were grazing on a little 

 green before the door ready to start with us. 



" Mr. Crosskey thought that we would be better to 

 take a sleep and have^ breakfast before starting, and 

 we would then be abler to pursue our journey. We 

 knocked at the door, and a woman came and opened 

 it. We were rather surprised to see her in her night- 

 gown. She did not seem to be in any way taken 

 (disconcerted) at our appearance. She knew nothing 

 of our language and we knew nothing of hers. How- 

 ever, by laying my hand on the side of my head and 

 bending it over on my shoulder as if I were sleeping, 

 she guessed correctly that we wanted a bed, and led 

 the way along a dark entry * into a room with no more 

 light from the window than let us barely see that 

 there was something over at the side of the wall that 

 might be a bed. She then left without saying a 

 word. We found that our conjectures were right. 

 It was a bed. 



* Passage. 



