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meats, &c., that are freely spread in small dishes
upon the table. Tea and coffee are also served, but
charged separately at 8 skillings = 3½d. per cup.
The tariff for dinner is 60 skillings = about 2s. 3d.
It usually includes soup, fish, two dishes of hot
meat, or one of meat and one of poultry or game;
and a dessert consisting of cakes, like our sponge
and pound cakes, almonds and raisins, and the
fruit of the season and locality; cranberries,
bilberries, and molteberries, with cream, being the
most characteristic. Besides these, there are the
usual shavings of cold meat and sausages in plates
on the table, which is further decorated with
growing flowers. We were abundantly supplied with
delicious lobsters between Bergen and Trondhjem.
The tariff for supper is the same as for
breakfast, which it resembles, excepting that the
regulation only promises cold meats. Tea and coffee are
served with this, also on the same terms. Both at
supper and breakfast wine and ale are served,
and preferred by many of the passengers.
Coffee is prepared after dinner and brought on
deck for those who choose to take it.
I should add, that in Norway most people dine
at dinner-time, i. e. at about 1 or 2 p.m., and those
who find it convenient to do so are not sufficiently
genteel to call it “luncheon;” 7 or 8 p.m. is the
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