New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-02

Refful ard duy 6'&1A "nom VIC enond ras1er NOT
have had for companion. Harold H,arsaser may
have learnt, IN CODstsntinope, 70 wash his fa,s and
scub his beautiful hair bot doubt if many Of his
followers initiated him. Let Us hope that IOge-
borg changed her dress occasionally, and that
B.lders temple was not full Of 1eas-thst Thorssen
vninssson placed before his guests something bet
ter than fadsrod and rancid butter and that Bj0rn
and Frthiof acted a. honestly toward strangers
- toward each other. The Viking chisf., undoubt-
edIy, must have learned the comfort Of cleanliness
aud the delights of good living, but, if such habits
were general, the nation has greatly degenerased
since their time.
We staid on deck until midnight, notwithstand-
ing the rain to see the grand rock Of HOrnelen, a
precipiee 200 feet high. The clouds lifted q lis.
tie and there was dim, lurd light in the sky, as
our Gamer swept under the awful elf A vast,
indistinct m.ss reschDg apparently to the zenith,
the summit crowned with pointed tower, ressm-
bling the cathedral Of Drontbeiu, and the sides
scared with deep assures, doomed over US. Now
splintered ,pire disengased itself from the gloom
end stood defined against the sky; lighter streaks
marked the spots where portions had slid away;
but a ! else was dark, uncertain and sublime Our
friendly captain had the steamers guns discharged
as We were abreat Of the highest part. There
were no separate echoes, but tremendous peal Of
sound, prolonged like the note Of an crgsn'pipe,
and gradually dying away at the summit in hum
ming vibrations.
Next morning we were sailing in narrow strait,
k.&. ali mt Ia n
pi lars. 1t Was raining dismaly, but we expected
nothing else, in the neishborhood Of Bergen. In
this city the average number of rainy days In year
is tvo Hundred, Bergen weather has become a BY
word throughout the North and no traveller ven
lures to hope for sunshine when he turns bis face
tbither. "Is it still raining at Bergenl" AK the
Dutch shippers when they meet Norwegian cap
tain. "Yes, blast you; is it still blowing at the
Te1ei" is generally the answer.
We took on board four or FIVE lepers, on theit
way TO the hospital at Bergen. A piece Of OIL
cloth had been thrown over some spars to shield
them from the rain, and they sat on deck avoided
by the other passengers, a melancholy picture of
di,ease and shame. One was a boy Of iourteeo.
upon whose face warthke excrescences were be-
ginning to appear, while woman, who seemed to
be his INC ther, was hideously swollen aad dls1g.
ured. A man, crouching down with bis head BE-
Tween bis bands, endeavored TO hide the scanned
and knotted mass of protruding blue flesh which
had once been human face. The forms of lepro-
~, elephan.iasis and other kindred diseases which
l have seen in the East and in tropical countries,
are net nearly 30 horrible. For these unfortunases
there was no hope. Some years, more or less, OF Q
hfe which 10 worse than death, was all 10 which
they could lock forward. No cure has yet been
discovered for this terrible disease. There are two
hospitals here, one Of which contains about Eve
hundred patients, while the other, which has re-
Gently been erected for the reception of canes in the
earlier stages, who may be subjected to expert.
mental courses of treatment, has already one hum
dred. This form Of Iprosy is supposed to be pro-
duced partly by an exclusive Diet Of sat hsh, and
partly by want Of personal cleanliness. The latter
is the most probable cause, and one does not Won
der q. the result after he has had little experience
Of Norwegian filth. II is the awful curse which
falls upon such boastly habits Of life. Iwish tho
Norwegians could be made Mussu'mans for while,
for the sake Of learning that cleanliness is not only
next to sodliness, but Q necessary part Of it.
doubt the existence Of filthy Christiaos, and have
always believed that St. Jerome was atrociously
slandered by the italian painters. But 10 there no
responsibility resting upon the clergymen Of this
country, who have 20 much influence over their
focks and who arc themselves clean and proper
persensi
BERGEN is also, a. l am informed, terribly
seourged by venereal diseases. Certainly do not
remember place where there are so few men
tall, strong, and well made ~ the people generally
are-without some visible mark Of disease or de-
fornity. A pby.cian Of the city has recently en-
deayored to cure syphilis in its secondary stage by
means Of incubation, having first tried the expert
rent Upon himself, and there Is DOW hospital
where this form of treatment is praeiced upon
two or three hundred patients-with the greatest
success, ss another physician informed NO. I IN.
tended 10 have visited it a. well as the hospital for
lepers, but the sight Of few eases around tue door
of the latter establishment 90 sichened ma thss
hsd no courage 10 undertake the task.
Let me leave these dssgreesble themes and ny
hat Bergen is one of the most ebarminsly pieFur'
e,que towns in al tho North. Its name, "The
Mountain" denotes enc Of is most striking fea'
lures. tits built upon two low capes, which pro-
jee. from the foot Of steep mountain two thousand
feet high while directly 10 its rear hes lovely little
lake, about three miles in circumference. On the
end of the northern headhnd stands the fortress OF
Bersenhuvs, with the tall square mass Of Wlken-
DORIS Tower, built upon the foundations Of tho
former palace Of King Okf Kyrre, the founder oi
the city. The narrow harbor between is erosded