FOREWORD
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
I. London to Denmark Across the North Sea.
II. Esbjerg Across Jutland, Funen and Zealand, the Little Belt
III. Copenhagen, a Quaint and Ancient City.
IV. Elsinore and Kronborg An Evening Dinner Party.
V. Across the Sund to Sweden and Incidents of Travel to Kristiania.
VI. A Day Upon the Rand Fjord and Along the Etna Elv To Frydenlund Ole Mon Our Driver.
VII. A Drive Along the Baegna Elv the Aurdals Vand and Many More to Skogstad.
VIII. Over the Height of Land A Wonderful Ride Down the Laera Dal to the Sogne Fjord.
IX. A Day Upon the Sogne Fjord.
X. From Stalheim to Eida The Waterfall of Skjerve Fos The Mighty Hardanger Fjord.
XI. The Buarbrae and Folgefonden Glaciers Cataracts and Mountain Tarns Odda to Horre.
XII. Over the Lonely Haukeli Fjeld Witches and Pixies, and Maidens Milking Goats.
XIII. Descending from the Fjelde The Telemarken Fjords The Arctic Twilight.
XIV. Kristiania to Stockholm A Wedding Party Differing Norsk and Swede.
XV. Stockholm the Venice of the North Life and Color of the
XVI. How We Entered Russia The Passport System Difficult to
XVII. St. Petersburg The Great Wealth of the Few The Bitter
XVIII. En Route to Moscow Under Military Guard Suspected of Designs on Life of the Czar.
XIX. Our Arrival at Moscow Splendor and Squalor Enlightenment
XX. The Splendid Pageant of the Russian Mass The Separateness
XXI. The First Snows Moscow to Warsaw Fat Farm Lands and
XXII. The Slav and the Jew The Slav's Envy and Jealousy of the Jew.
XXIII. Across Germany and Holland to England A Hamburg Wein
INDEX
Title: Through Scandinavia to Moscow
Author: William Seymour Edwards
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Through Scandinavia to Moscow
William Seymour Edwards
THROUGH SCANDINAVIA TO MOSCOW
WITH
MANY ILLUSTRATIONS
AND MAPS
By
WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS
Author of
“IN TO THE YUKON,” ETC.
CINCINNATI
The Robert Clarke Co.
1906
COPYRIGHT 1906, By
WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS
DEDICATION
To my life-long chum,
my father,
these pages are affectionately dedicated.