The immigrants travel upstream from Stillwater to the St.Croix Valley. Fina-Kajsa finds out her son is not rich at all ! He's become an alcoholic, living in a shack on his neglected farm.
Karl Oskar buys a temporary house near lake Ki-Chi-Saga and starts to improve it.Kristina is unpacking the 'America-chest'. For the first time in months she sees the things she packed back home in Sweden. She sings a song about the camphor and lavender packed in with the things. These herbs are used to protect and preserve them from insects, mildew and mustiness…

Här är ljussen, som jag stöpte, julen innan vi for

(Here's the candles, that I dipped the, Christmas 'fore we left - ah!)

Här är duken, utav linne, som jag fick av min mor

(Here's the cloth that's, made of linen, that I got from my ma)

Mina kardor och min ullsax!

(My carding brush-es and my shears! )

Som en oväntad gåva, blir vart redskap,

(All these things are like an unex-pected gift that,)

som jag finner, här där minnema bor

(I am finding, here where memories are)

Kamfer, och lavendel, det luktar hemma

(Camphor, and lavender, they smell of home…ah!)
 

BARNEN: (Children:)

Alla fina saker, min docka och min lergök

(All of my fine things here, my doll and ocarina)

KRISTINA OCH BARNEN: (Kristina and children:)

En kista utan botten

(A chest that's without bottom)

KRISTINA:

Att ösa ur

(To rumage through)
 

Här är plaggen, som ska skyla, oss i ur och i skur

(Here are the clothes, which will cover, us up and here's some shoes)

Mina nystan, mina nålar! Dom kom med, en sån tur!

(Here's my spools and, here's my needles! oh such luck! they came through,)
 

Det finns massor, kvar att finna, och jag tror jag kan lova

(There is lots left, here to be found, and I believe I can promise)

Någonstans här, nerigenom ligger sagor på lur

(That somewhere here, down inside there, lies a storybook for you)
 

Kamfer och lavendel, det luktar hemma

(Camphor and lavender they smell of home…ah)

Kamfer och lavendel, det luktar hemma

(Camphor and lavender they smell of home…ah)
 

BARNEN: (Children:)

Alla fina saker, min docka och min lergök

(All of my fine things here, my doll and ocarina)

KRISTINA OCH BARNEN: (Kristina and children:)

En kista utan botten

(A chest that's without bottom)

KRISTINA:

Att ösa ur

(To rumage through)
 

BARNEN: (Children:)

Alla fina saker, min docka och min lergök

(All of my fine things here, my doll and ocarina)

KRISTINA OCH BARNEN: (Kristina and children:)

En kista utan botten

(A chest that's without bottom)

KRISTINA:

Att ösa ur

(To rumage through)