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conversational purposes, and the two strangers had 

 still less of Norse. The latter feel assured that it 

 would have been highly amusing to any one to have 

 heard the four discussing matters in the existing 

 state of their knowledge of each other's language, 

 with the merry laughs of the young lady at their hits 

 and misses of each other's meaning. 



G. O. Sars, who afterwards became an excellent 

 English scholar, has since kept up a friendly com- 

 munication with them, sending Mr. Robertson his 

 scientific papers, and, as has already been noticed, 

 deriving advantage from specimens of the fauna of 

 Cumbrae. 



"We had," Mr. Robertson relates, "a pleasant 

 excursion to Krolevn, where the sun was to be seen, 

 from the summit of Kongsberg, rising shortly after 

 it had set. 



" When we arrived in the evening at the hotel at 

 the foot of the Kongsberg, we found that every bed 

 was taken up. The landlord had good English, and 

 as he was a very civil gentleman it lessened our 

 difficulty much, as we could have his advice what 

 was best to be done. When he saw our disappoint- 

 ment, and that I did not yet seem very strong, and 

 that my wife had not the most robust appearance, he 

 said that he was sorry he could not give us a bed, 

 but we could have the use of a room, and that he 

 would give us blankets with a sofa, which we gladly 

 accepted. As we had but a short time to wait till 

 we had to prepare to start for the top of the mountain, 

 a bed could not have given much rest. 



"Unfortunately the morning was hazy, with a 



