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THROUGH NORWAY WITH THE VESEY CLUB. APRIL, 1891 . 
which, as seen from the steamer, looked much like a former 
beach, but which, as like as not, is the terminal moraine of the 
huge glaciers which once came down these deeply-scored 
valleys. 
Shortly before midday we landed at Hellesylt, whence 
we purposed to drive over the dividing ridge to Faleide, on 
the Nord Fjord, a matter of about thirty miles, while our 
steamer, with those who shirked the land journey, went 
round some 150 miles or so by water. Stopping for dinner at 
G-rodaas (seventeen miles), we arrived ot Faleide at about 9 0. 
I say we arrived. I ought rather to say what were left of us, 
for, while a score or more shirked the journey from the 
outset, more than a dozen others gave it up at Grodaas ; so 
that, although we had a grand glacier expedition in view for 
the next day, we reached our journey’s end little more than 
thirty strong. It is fair to say that nearly half of these were 
ladies. But Faleide was no resting place for us. The Kaiser, 
who at Christiania had already ousted our party from one 
hotel, had secured the only hotel at Faleide for himself and 
his suite for a fishing expedition which he had in view ; and, 
though he was on his yacht, lying up the fjord at Olden, 
whither we were bound, they dared not, or said they dared 
not, give us admission to the hotel. But for this it is more 
than doubtful whether the rest of us would not have broken 
down here, and sent the glacier expedition to—Jericho. As 
it was, however, there was no help for us. Our boats lay at 
the landing stage, and we rowed nearly ten miles up the 
fjord to Olden, arriving there shortly after eleven—a tolerably 
hard day’s work with such perverse weather—but receiving 
the warmest possible welcome at Yri’s hotel. 
In dealing with such a large party as ours normally was, it 
will be easily seen that a great many arrangements had to be 
made, and these arrangements had, if possible, to be carried 
out independently of the weather. This is a great and 
undoubted disadvantage attaching to a large party. Many 
of our present arrangements were made a month or more 
ahead, for it was a matter of no small responsibility to get 
together conveyances to move a possible seventy people over 
routes the regular travelling accommodation for which might 
not be more than a dozen. In making the necessary arrange¬ 
ments for this western part of our route, Mr. Stone had the 
invaluable assistance of Mr. Lamb, chief engineer to the North 
of Scotland Steamship Company (the owners of our ship the 
St. Rognvald). This gentleman met us at Trondlijem, and 
accompanied us nearly to the conclusion of our trip, and the 
whole of the detailed arrangements of this part of our journey 
