seven o'clock
First Lessons in Climbing At Altona , a suburb of Hamburg , is the Chief Station of the Kiel railway , which was to take us to the shores of the Belt . In twenty minutes from the moment of our departure we were in Holstein , and our carriage entered the station . Our heavy luggage was taken out , weighed , labeled , and placed in a huge van . We then took our tickets , and exactly at seven o'clock were seated opposite each other in a firstclass railway carriage . My uncle said nothing . He was too busy examining his papers , among which of course was the famous parchment , and some letters of introduction from the Danish consul which were to pave the way to an introduction to the Governor of Iceland . My only amusement was looking out of the window .