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Return Trip To Switzerland

They took the southbound train, en route to Gothenburg, Sweden. When it became light, at about 9:00, she enjoyed what she termed “the romantic scenery.” The trip on the ferry was tempestuous—six hours to Frederikshavn, Denmark (Historical Sketches of the Foreign Missions of the Seventh-day Adventists, 221); then by train south to Germany and across Germany to Basel. WV 236.5

Back home in Basel she summed up some facts about the tour: WV 236.6

We reached Basel [Thursday] November 19, our homeward journey having occupied four days. We were absent six weeks on this Scandinavian tour, and traveled more than twenty-five hundred miles.... Wherever we went, our people warmly expressed their gratitude for the help which had been sent them and the interest manifested in their behalf by the brethren in America (Ibid., 225). WV 236.7