CONTENTS

Previous
PAGE
I. London to Denmark Across the North Sea 1
II. Esbjerg—Across Jutland, Funen and Zealand, the Little Belt and Big Belt to Copenhagen, and Friends Met Along the Way 7
III. Copenhagen, a Quaint and Ancient City 15
IV. Elsinore and Kronborg—An Evening Dinner Party 31
V. Across the Sund to Sweden and Incidents of Travel to Kristiania 40
VI. A Day Upon the Rand Fjord—Along the Etna Elv To Frydenlund—Ole Mon Our Driver 51
VII. A Drive Along the Baegna Elv—the Aurdals Vand and Many More to Skogstad 60
VIII. Over the Height of Land—A Wonderful Ride Down the Laera Dal to the Sogne Fjord 68
IX. A Day Upon the Sogne Fjord 75
X. From Stalheim to Eida—The Waterfall of Skjerve Fos—The Mighty Hardanger Fjord 80
XI. The Buarbrae and Folgefonden Glaciers—Cataracts and Mountain Tarns—Odda to Horre 89
XII. Over the Lonely Haukeli Fjeld—Witches and Pixies, and Maidens Milking Goats 96
XIII. Descending from the Fjelde—The Telemarken Fjords—The Arctic Twilight 106
XIV. Kristiania to Stockholm—A Wedding Party—Differing Norsk and Swede 118
XV. Stockholm the Venice of the North—Life and Color of the Swedish Capital—Manners of the People and their King 128
XVI. How We Entered Russia—The Passport System—Difficult to Get Into Russia and More Difficult to Get Out 136
XVII. St. Petersburg—The Great Wealth of the Few—The Bitter Poverty of the Many—Conditions Similar to Those Preceding the French Revolution 148
XVIII. En Route to Moscow—Under Military Guard—Suspected of Designs on Life of the Czar 158
XIX. Our Arrival at Moscow—Splendor and Squalor—Enlightenment and Superstition—Russia Asiatic Rather Than European 167
XX. The Splendid Pageant of the Russian Mass—The Separateness of Russian Religious Feeling From Modern Thought—Russia Mediaeval and Pagan 180
XXI. The First Snows—Moscow to Warsaw—Fat Farm Lands and Frightful Poverty of the Mujiks Who Own them and Till them—I Recover My Passport 189
XXII. The Slav and the Jew—The Slav’s Envy and Jealousy of the Jew 201
XXIII. Across Germany and Holland to England—A Hamburg Wein Stube—The “Simple Fisher-Folk” of Maarken—Two Gulden at Den Haag 214
XXIV. Map of North Europe.
Map of Scandinavia and Baltic Russia, in profile.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Clyx.com


Top of Page
Top of Page