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Updated: June 3, 2025
There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people. We went on board the steamer Werner on the morning of the 8th, but first paid our passage two days afterwards, just before reaching Carlstad.
"What do they do with the reindeer?" "They milk them in summer, and in winter they let them to the owners of the post-stations. Of course, when they move they use them themselves." "What we want, Luka," Godfrey said, after sitting quiet for some time, "is more money.
First, to the banker's who supplied me with a sufficient quantity of small money for the post-stations on the road to Drontheim; then to a seller of carrioles, of whom we procured three, at $36 apiece, to be resold to him for $24, at the expiration of two months; and then to supply ourselves with maps, posting-book, hammer, nails rope, gimlets, and other necessary helps in case of a breakdown.
After this he would have to spend two years with me in a big library, where I studied the history and literature of the country. And so on, and so on. Even my journeys would prove tedious to him, as they often were to myself, for he would have to drive with me many a score of weary miles, where even the most zealous diary-writer would find nothing to record beyond the names of the post-stations.
In one instance a cure was supposed to be effected by writing a prayer on a piece of buttered bread to be eaten by the patient. Being users but not patrons of the Russian post-roads, we were not legally entitled to the conveniences of the post-stations.
Sometimes he will not get even the wooden bench, for in ordinary post-stations there is but one room for travellers, and the two benches there are rarely more may be already occupied.
Next morning everything goes on just the same: the same kind of post-stations and tea-drinking, the same moving horses' cruppers, the same short talks with Vanyusha, the same vague dreams and drowsiness, and the same tired, healthy, youthful sleep at night.
On all the principal lines of communication there are regular post-stations, at from ten to twenty miles apart, where a certain number of horses and vehicles are kept for the convenience of travellers.
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