If she arrives at Helsingor in the night before four o'clock, she has to wait, as the custom-house is not opened till that time.
The skipper is, however, at liberty to proceed direct to Copenhagen, but this liberty costs five thalers (fifteen shillings).

If, however, the toll may thus be paid in Copenhagen just as easily, the obligation to stop at Helsingor is only a trick to gain the higher toll; for if a captain is in haste, or the wind is too favourable to be lost, he forfeits the five thalers, and sails on to Copenhagen.
Our captain cared neither for time nor trouble; he cleared the ship here, and so we did not reach Copenhagen until two o'clock in the afternoon.
After my long absence, it seemed so familiar, so beautiful and grand, as if I had seen nothing so beautiful in my whole life.

My readers must bear in mind, however, where I came from, and how long I had been imprisoned in a vessel in which I scarcely had space to move.

When I put foot on shore again, I could have imitated Columbus, and prostrated myself to kiss the earth.
DEPARTURE FROM COPENHAGEN .-- CHRISTIANIA.
On the 19th August, the day after my arrival from Iceland, at two o'clock in the afternoon, I had already embarked again; this time in the fine royal Norwegian steamer _Christiania_, of 170 horsepower, bound for the town of Christiania, distant 304 sea-miles from Copenhagen.

We had soon passed through the Sound and arrived safely in the Cattegat, in which we steered more to the right than on the journey to Iceland; for we not only intended to see Norway and Sweden, but to cast anchor on the coast.
We could plainly see the fine chain of mountains which bound the Cattegat on the right, and whose extreme point, the Kulm, runs into the sea like a long promontory.