UP THE BALTIC

CONTENTS.


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I. A WAIF ON THE NORTH SEA 11
II. OFF THE NAZE OF NORWAY 27
III. AN ACCIDENT TO THE SECOND CUTTER 43
IV. NORWAY IN THE PAST AND THE PRESENT 59
V. MR. CLYDE BLACKLOCK AND MOTHER 76
VI. A DAY AT CHRISTIANSAND 92
VII. UP THE CHRISTIANIA FJORD 110
VIII. SIGHTS OF CHRISTIANIA, AND OTHER MATTERS 128
IX. THE EXCURSION WITHOUT RUNNING AWAY 146
X. GOTTENBURG AND FINKEL 164
XI. ON THE WAY TO THE RJUKANFOS 181
XII. THE BOATSWAIN AND THE BRITON 201
XIII. THE MEETING OF THE ABSENTEES 218
XIV. THROUGH THE SOUND TO COPENHAGEN 237
XV. COPENHAGEN AND TIVOLI 255
XVI. EXCURSION TO KLAMPENBORG AND ELSINORE 274
XVII. TO STOCKHOLM BY GÖTA CANAL 292
XVIII. UP THE BALTIC 310
XIX. THE CRUISE IN THE LITTLE STEAMER 329
XX. STOCKHOLM AND ITS SURROUNDINGS 349


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UP THE BALTIC;
OR,
YOUNG AMERICA IN NORWAY, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK.


CHAPTER I.

A WAIF ON THE NORTH SEA.


"Boat on the weather bow, sir!" shouted the lookout on the top-gallant
forecastle of the Young America.

"Starboard!" replied Judson, the officer of the deck, as he discovered
the boat, which was drifting into the track of the ship.

"Starboard, sir!" responded the quartermaster in charge of the wheel.

"Steady!" added the officer.

"Steady, sir," repeated the quartermaster.

By this time a crowd of young officers and seamen had leaped upon the
top-gallant forecastle, and into the weather rigging, to obtain a view
of the little boat, which, like a waif on the ocean, was drifting down
towards the coast of Norway. It contained only a single person, who
was either a dwarf or a boy, for he was small in stature. He lay upon
a seat near the stern of the boat, with his feet on the gunwale. He
was either asleep or dead, for though the ship had approached within
hail, he neither moved nor made any sign. The wind was light from the
southward, and the sea was quite calm.

"What do you make of it, Ryder?" called the officer of the deck to the
second master, who was on duty forward.

"It is a flat-bottomed boat, half full of water, with a boy in it,"
answered Ryder.

"Hail him," added the officer of the deck.

"Boat, ahoy!" shouted Ryder, at the top of his lungs.

The person in the boat, boy or man, made no reply. Ryder repeated the
hail, but with no better success. The officers and seamen held their
breath with interest and excitement, for most of them had already come
to the conclusion that the occupant of the boat was dead. A feeling
akin to horror crept through the minds of the more timid, as they
gazed upon the immovable body in the dilapidated craft; for they felt
that they were in the presence of death, and to young people this is
always an impressive season. By this time the ship was within a short
distance of the water-logged bateau. As the waif on the ocean
exhibited no signs of life, the first lieutenant, in charge of the
vessel, was in doubt as to what he should do.

Though he knew that it was the first duty of a sailor to assist a
human being in distress, he was not sure that the same effort was
required in behalf of one who had already ceased to live. Captain
Cumberland, in command of the ship, who had been in the cabin when
the excitement commenced, now appeared upon the quarter-deck, and
relieved the officer of the responsibility of the moment. Judson
reported the cause of the unwonted scene on deck, and as the captain
discovered the little boat, just on the weather bow, he promptly
directed the ship to be hove to.