CHAPTER II.

Disappointed fishermen--A formidable diver--Arendal, the Norwegian Venice--A vocabulary at fault--Ship-building--The Norwegian Seaboard--Sandefjord, the Norwegian Brighton--A complicated costume--Flora’s own bonnet--Bruin at large--Skien and its saw-mills--Norway cutting its sticks--Wooden walls--Christopher Hansen Blum--The Norwegian phase of religious dissent--A confession of faith--The Norsk Church the offspring of that of Great Britain pp. 16-28