The searching begins at Newcas-Ue. Lists of questions as to who you are, where you are going, and why, have to be filled up, and your luggage examined, particularly for any correspondence. Let this be guiding rule, that no papers of any kind are carried. Even old letters, even a note book in which daily expenses are to be jotted down, will sooner or later be torn from you. Also if one wants to write a letter before embarking it must be done before going on to the steamer. Once aboard, one may not come off again and can post nothing.
But formalities here lighten the task at Bergen where the Customs inal fro
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