g
the Rein-Deer--Adventure on the Mountains--Slaughtering
Deer--The Fawn 336

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Sick Sailor--The Storm--The Lee-Shore--"Breakers
a-head"--The Yacht in Distress--Weathering the Storm--Return
to Bergen--The Physician--The Whirlpool--The Water-Spout
--Homeward Bound--Scarborough--Yarmouth Roads--Erith--
Greenwich Hospital--Conclusion 397

ERRATA.

Page
79, line 14, _for_ "Nelson," _read_ "Gambier."
92, omit "to the eye."
100, line 12, _for_ "Nelson's," _read_ "Gambier's."
145, last line, _for_ "Braggesen," _read_ "Baggesen."
165, line 31, _for_ "they had endured," _read_ "each of them had endured."
201, line 9, _read_ "as here at Gottenborg."
239, line 33, _for_ "immovably," _read_ "immoveably."
243, line 6, _for_ "jibbed," _read_ "jibed."
286, line 18, _for_ "everywhere," _read_ "ever where."
327, line 10, _for_ "than me," _read_ "than I."
338, line 31, _for_ "jibbing," _read_ "jibing."

A YACHT VOYAGE
TO
NORWAY, SWEDEN, & DENMARK.

CHAPTER I.

DEPARTURE FROM GREENWICH--THE HISTORY OF THE IRIS
YACHT--SHEERNESS--HARWICH--UNDER WEIGH--THE NORTH
SEA--SAIL IN SIGHT--THE MAIL OVERBOARD--SPEAKING
THE NORWEGIAN.

I believe the old Italian proverb says, that every man, before he dies,
should do three things: "Get a son, build a house, and write a book."
Now, whether or not I am desirous, by beginning at the end, to end at
the beginning of this quaint axiom, I leave the reader to conjecture. My
book may afford amusement to him who will smile when I am glad, and
sympathise with the impressions I have caught in other moods of mind;
but I have little affinity of feeling, and less companionship with him
who expects to see pictures of life coloured differently from those I
have beheld.

At three o'clock on the boisterous afternoon of the 1st of May, 1847, I
left Greenwich with my friend Lord R----, in his yacht, to cruise round
the coasts of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; and, although the period of
the year at which I quitted London was the one I most desired to remain
in it, and join, as far as I was able, in the pomps and gaieties of Old
Babylon, I did not like to miss this opportunity, offered under such
favourable circumstances, of seeing countries so rarely visited by
Englishmen, more particularly as the invitation had been pressed upon me
so unaffectedly and kindl