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time the train was to wait, and answered every inquiry 
politely, but was not otherwise sociable. It may have been 
a voluntary civility on his part—it was at least no un- 
pleasant incident. He turned off on a branch road before 
reaching Tavastehus, giving particular advice before he 
left as to the remainder of the way. 
‘We were received by the Governor with the utmost 
politeness ; his beautiful and accomplished daughter, who 
spoke the English language with great purity, being called 
as an interpreter,and we were furnished with his carriage and 
coachman for the remainder of the journey. He sent with 
these to our hotel a letter in English giving the distances 
between stages where horses would be changed, and the 
sums that the peasants would expect for their teams. It 
was the merest pittance—about a quarter of a dollar for 
two horses and a man for six or seven miles, As the 
carriage came in at a stopping-place, which was generally 
a group of low, flat log houses and barns, arranged around 
a court or yard, one or two young men would start off for 
the pastures to bring up a fresh team. The carriage, 
harness, and driver, went through, while the peasant would 
ride back to the place where he had started. As the 
latter took his seat by the driver we noticed that he 
generally had his bridle thrown over one shoulder, with 
several large annular cakes of coarse, unleavened, black 
rye bread strung upon it. These, at the end of his route, 
he would divide with his horses as their lunch, giving a 
mouthful to one and then the other, occasionally keeping 
one for his own eating. At each station the traveller was 
requested to enter in a book opposite his name the time 
of his arrival, his destination, and any complaints he might 
have to make as to the service. The driver had instruc- 
tions to go through to destination, and to await our 
pleasure for return. 
‘This journey of thirty miles led over an excellent road, 
through a cold and to some extent a swampy country, but 
otherwise well cultivated, the crops being barley, peas, 
oats, potatoes, turnips, and flax, with meadows and pas- 
