CHAPTER XIII.

Author visits a glacier--Meets with two compatriots--A good year for bears--The judgment of snow--Effects of parsley fern on horses--The advantage of having a shadow--Old friends of the hill tribe--Skeggedals foss--Fairy strings--The ugliest dale in Norway--A photograph of omnipotence--The great Bondehus glacier--Record of the mysterious ice period--Guide stories--A rock on its travels pp. 260-272