Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway

CARL XV.
KING OF NORWAY AND SWEDEN.
OBIIT 18 SEPT. 1872.
In Memoriam.
DEDICATED AS A SINCERE TRIBUTE TO HIS LATE MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY CARL XV. BY THE KIND AND SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THIS PRESENT MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY OSCAR II. KING OF NORWAY AND SWEDEN.
We awoke one morning; our gipsies were gone; our camp was gone; no light shining through as we lay in our tent. No freshness of the morning air; no wafted perfume of fragrant wild flowers; no music of the waterfall in the glen below. We were left to pursue the pathway of our journey alone.
Yet our notes de voyage remained to us. Impressions caught on the wayside of travel—written by the light of actual circumstance—we give them to our readers. They are a true episode in a life.
THE AUTHOR.
⁂ The engravings are by Edward Whymper, author of “Scrambles amongst the Alps,” and have been taken from sketches made by the author during his wanderings in Norway, or from photographs obtained by him specially for this work.
“Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat, ac molliat.”
There is no grief time does not lessen and soften.
Since the succeeding pages were written, Norway and Sweden have mourned the death of their King, Carl XV., at Malmoe, on the 18th September, 1872.