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This gentleman is consequently the good angel of all tourists desirous of exploring the Scandinavian peninsula, and a man Christiania could scarcely do without. "By the way, you found the carriage you had ordered waiting for you at Tinoset, did you not, professor?" he asked. "Yes. Having ordered it through you, Monsieur Benett, I felt sure that it would, be there at the appointed time."
"I could easily do it if necessary," remarked Joel. "But it will not be necessary, fortunately. Now suppose we go over our route again." "Well, once at Tinoset, Monsieur Sylvius, we for a time follow the shores of Lake Fol, passing through Vik and Bolkesko, so as to reach Mose, and afterward Kongsberg, Hangsund, and Drammen.
Besides and this is a point of very considerable importance the food one obtains at the Dal inn is excellent; a very unusual thing at houses of public entertainment in this locality, for the Telemark deserves only too well its surname of the Buttermilk Country. At Tiness, Listhus, Tinoset, and many other places, no bread is to be had, or if there be, it is of such poor quality as to be uneatable.
Our boat was in readiness; and its couch of fir boughs in the stern became a pleasant divan of indolence, after our hard horses and rough roads. We reached Tinoset by one o'clock, but were obliged to wait until four for horses. The only refreshment we could obtain was oaten bread, and weak spruce beer.
Tinoset is situated near the end of Lake Tinn, and here the Maan plunges majestically into the valley below, where it resumes its former course. The horses being already harnessed to the carriage, our friends immediately started in the direction of Bamble.
But I fear when we reach Tinoset, at the further end of the lake, we shall have some difficulty in procuring a kariol, as we have not warned them of our intended arrival, as is customary in this country." "Have no fears, my boy," replied the professor: "I attended to that. You needn't be afraid that I have any intention of making you foot it from Dal to Christiania."
About four o'clock the boat reached Tinoset, one of the most primitive of hamlets. Still that mattered little, as Sylvius Hogg had no intention of remaining there even for an hour. As he had prophesied to Joel, a vehicle was awaiting them on the shore, for having decided upon this journey several weeks before, he had written to Mr.
All were in bed at Tinoset; but we went into the common sleeping-room, and stirred the people up promiscuously until we found the housewife, who gave us the only supper the house afforded hard oaten bread and milk. We three then made the most of two small beds. In the morning we took a boat, with four oarsmen, for Mael, at the mouth of the Westfjord-dal, in which lies the Riukan Foss.
Then, at Tinoset, instead of turning his steps toward the south that is to say, in the direction of Bamble he hired another kariol, and took the Hardanger route, in order to reach the gulf of that name in the shortest possible time.
There was no Arabian, nor even Byzantine blood in our horses; and our attendants a stout full-grown farmer and a boy of sixteen easily kept pace with their slow rough trot. In order to reach Tinoset the next day, we had determined to push on to the Riukan Foss the same evening.
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