Show THROUGH THE GOTA CANAL oliver describes lila life aboard a queer steamer yew new york horning Journ journal ait sweden is in the country of europe which is most like new england in its natural aspect in some parts of it with a yankee barn or two in in eight sight the tourist might easily believe he was in the state of maine alitine 9 we have heard a great deal said and read a great deal that has been written about the scenery on the coast of norway we have geen seen some pictures in a popular magazine of localities in thia this country and the artist who made the drawings must have looked at cliffs and hills bills through a microscope of forty horse power precipices feet high run up in the picture 3 above the truck of a ships mast lying close to them the scenery is even more grand on the coast of maine in sweeden the gota canal is full of interest and through what passes pases under this name the trip tri P from Gatt guttenburg enburg to stockholm is made through a considerable por lion of the voyage is on the baltic sea or through two great lakes I 1 came down from Chris and went aboard of the little canal steamer at midnight B by Y paying extra for it I 1 was put into a bulte hulte hutte or stateroom with a sofa on each side of it on which a bed is made up I 1 think I 1 had a terrible battle in my sleep for when I 1 wakened I 1 wai covered with gore though perhaps the whole of it was ivas not mine raine the hutte which you will please to call the 1 l bitty as the natives do was multitudinously occupied before I 1 went into it my battle was with the original occupants and their gore and mine mingled I 1 am not of my br bravery avery in in such contests and I 1 am willing to own that I 1 was beaten routed conquered couque red and I 1 beat an hasty basty an inglorious retreat I 1 had been badly hit bit in the hutte butte and I 1 abandoned the field to the victore victors and if I 1 had hall not done so I 1 am sure there would have been nothing left but my bonea bones in th the a morning my bly foes wore the red armor and their lances were very sharp they 11 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 r JL were valiant knights on ight i I 1 I 1 am RM willing to be called zua a CO cow if I 1 deserve it for w lt ra running awa 1 I way y 0 this occasion on r 11 I 1 went on deck and in m a time the Wad stena started short in the morning mtr ning she g bg a at w 2 built quite abort short to e enable n abble her bei to as through the locks but she go very well fitted for a as a up vessel her size size the cabin CA ug in w wag s aft of i butte on each bide side 0 of I 1 it F pors with r award was the saloon where the ideall were taken with sofas where sen senders 9 ere not I 1 providing themuel the mael na M with stateroom slept oyer th after cabin waa was the hurricane deck which is the favorite resort of th th 9 passengers the steamer was in the got rever n nt t more than feet wide with occasional rapid by I 1 locks early in the marn though not till I 1 had bad been cornine on ona nine deck four hours a couple of women aa feared bearing trays with coffe cott and little cakes hey had bad ni ficai wh white ite sugar thick cream and rad tha the coffee was about the bait I 1 I 1 it is all evell a as on the steamers tte amerl in these northern regions region after I 1 bad taken my breakfast in in the saloon about the middle raid lle 04 the forenoon one ot of the women who h served as waiters presented m me e til a blank book and pene pencil il sh I 1 could not speak any lingo that I 1 could but I 1 concluded that I 1 w wa to enter in the book that 1 I ba had t taken a ke n coffee e on deck and the mea ea in the saloon and I 1 charged to MI with these things this was by better e ette than thin on the steamer to jorwa norway y where I 1 w was a a required to state whai whit I 1 had in thirty hours bw but you are presumed to bo be honest and you try to be so sa in the course of the forenoon the steamer came to a point I 1 w where b ere a series of eaxt sixtan ca locks h have a ve to b I 1 11 passed and we wal falkel ke I 1 three hill milea around them thus seeing owing abd tbd th country better and obtains obtaining g it A a sight of the falls of Troll hatten latter in the day the steamer arrives at the great western lake which is a hundred miles long and fifty wide and is is the third in tiza size to E europe drope though hardly more than a puddle compared with lake superior r the wind was blowing I 1 half a gale and most mon of the passenger sen gerik were seasick for the abort i ness of the steamer left her quite at the mercy of even short waves there was nothing more to secand see and I 1 went to 0 on the sofa in tha the I 1 cabin for fur I 1 would not risk another encounter with the red armored I 1 knights of the hutte butte I 1 from this lake the Wad stena I 1 went into the canal again and I 1 walked with others to the next I 1 lock as is frequently done between r these stopping places bat at mid I 1 I 1 f ft t the steamer and went to a country hotel I 1 the steamer continued on her way to the western lake which it crosses and ther run out into the baltic finishing the voyage near tha the shore the trip requires about three daye I 1 went to stockholm by br railroad |