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Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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wly up the steep precipice, following asmall stream fed by a glacier, we gather tinyEnglish forget-me-nots, and butter-cups. Whenwe reach the promontory a cloud hangs over thehorizon ; beyond the black curtain are the unknownregions guarded by a wall of ice, that bar allapproach. The bleakness and loneliness of the capeand sea deeply impress you. Neither chirp ofbird nor noise of insect is heard. The watch saysfifteen minutes before midnight, and yet it is lightas day. Instinctively you draw your coat aboutyou, as the chill of a departing day is in theatmosphere. As the sea captain watches the sun reach thezenith, so you look upon the same sun creepinglower and lower along the horizon till it touchesthe water, and ceasing to descend, you have themidnight sun. Like a huge ball of fire it bowlesalong the waves. Suddenly the rich glow of a sun-set mingles with the brilliant coloring of a sun-rise, that heralds a new-born day at the unnaturalhour of midnight. To a believer in the Bible no
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TRA VELS. 289 sight more vividly suggests Heaven, where there isno night, than the Lands of the midnight sun.No wonder the ancients worshipped the Sun. It isrelated of a white haired Norseman of unblemishedintegrity, a Judge of the Icelandic Republic, whohad come to his death-bed, that he would worshipno other God but He who made the Sun, as hemust be mightier than Thor and Odin, the Gods ofhis fathers. He begged that he might be carried out underthe blue heavens that he might pray the Father ofLight to deliver his soul from the darkness ofdeath. Count that day lost whose low descending sunViews from thy hand, no noble action done. Nine hundred years ago a hardy race of sailorslived in the inlets and fjords along the coast ofNorway. These men were called Vikings fromVik, meaning bay. Harold the Fair wished tomarry a beautiful Norse maiden. She refused tillhe should drive all the petty princes out of Nor-way, which he did, forcing the Vikings to flee inships. These were clinker built a

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