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TENT LIFE WITH
ENGLISH GIPSIES IN NORWAY.
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CARL XV.
KING OF NORWAY AND SWEDEN.
OBIIT 18 SEPT. 1872.iii
TENT LIFE
WITH
ENGLISH GIPSIES IN NORWAY.
BY
HUBERT SMITH,
MEMBER OF THE ENGLISH ALPINE CLUB; NORSKE TURIST FORENING;
AND FELLOW OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
WITH
FIVE FULL-PAGE ENGRAVINGS, THIRTY-ONE SMALLER ILLUSTRATIONS,
AND MAP OF THE COUNTRY, SHOWING ROUTES.
Henry S. King & Co.,
65, Cornhill, & 12, Paternoster Row, London.
1873.
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[The Right of Translation is reserved by the Author.]
In Memoriam.
DEDICATED
AS A SINCERE TRIBUTE
TO
HIS LATE MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY
CARL XV.
BY
THE KIND AND SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THIS
PRESENT MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY
OSCAR II.
KING OF NORWAY AND SWEDEN.
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PREFACE.
We awoke one morning; our gipsies were gone;our camp was gone; no light shining through as welay in our tent. No freshness of the morning air;no wafted perfume of fragrant wild flowers; no musicof the waterfall in the glen below. We were left topursue the pathway of our journey alone.
Yet our notes de voyage remained to us. Impressionscaught on the wayside of travel—written bythe light of actual circumstance—we give them toour readers. They are a true episode in a life.
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CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | xxi |
| CHAPTER I. | |
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| Norway—Our gipsy tent—Tent fittings—Cooking apparatus—Commissariat—Gipsies’ tent—Bagage de luxe—Weight of baggage—Transit—Donkeys—Our party—Esmeralda | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Gipsy equipment—Norwegian gipsies—Prœsten Eilert Sundt—The Hull steamer—The tourist’s friend—Our gipsy song | 11 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| A friend’s misgiving—Dark forebodings—A sleepless night—The railway station—The Albion—A philosopher—The stree ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |