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...setting sun pierces the breakers so grim...
More burning than the sun of Araby...
...with no effect. I turn around and entreat the boy to stop the animal. Like an idiot that he is, he only repeats, "Shoe blacking," and persists in whipping the galloping brute. My eye-glasses shake off, and become a total wreck in the bottom of the gig. The sun is very hot and the road is dusty. (I anathematize Jenkins for advising me to come to Norway.) The more I pull on the reins the faster the horse goes. Despair! After two hours of misery we come to a town; the horse stops of his own accord...
After supper, consult my watch. Time ten o'clock. Never had any confidence in that watch of mine. Always fast. Judge from position of the sun that the true time is about...
...take a stroll around the town. Population chiefly pigs. Fog has lifted, and sun again very warm. Soon get tired of walking, and come back to the house. Everybody gone to bed. Suppose it must be one of the customs of the country to retire before the sun goes down. Sit up several hours studying my phrase-book. The sun in the mean time goes behind some mountains, but to my surprise, soon comes up again and seems to be getting higher. Time by my watch now one o'clock. Am determined not to go to bed before dark...