Chapter I: Front Matter

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NORWAY

'_A man is at all times entitled, or even called upon by occasion,
to speak, and write, and in all fit ways utter, what he has himself
gone through, and known, and got the mastery of; and in truth, at
bottom, there is nothing else that any man has a right to write of.
For the rest, one principle, I think, in whatever farther you write,
may be enough to guide you: that of standing rigorously by the fact,
however naked it look. Fact is eternal; all fiction is very
transitory in comparison. All men are interested in any man if he
will speak the facts of his life for them; his authentic experience,
which corresponds, as face with face, to that of all other sons of
Adam._'

THOMAS CARLYLE

[Plate: RUNNING THE RAPIDS BELOW GJENDESHEIM.]

THREE IN NORWAY

_by_

_TWO OF THEM_

With Map and Fifty-Nine Illustrations on Wood
from Sketches by the Authors

London
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1882

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