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mand or Lensmand in Finmarken. Such liberality is 
of course beyond abuse ! | 
Above Karasjok good fishing may be had at Assebakte. 
A friend of mine, who has had much experience on 
the river, told me that he found 9—11 pv. um, and 1—6 
A. M. the best times for fishing. It little matters when 
one sleeps in those sunlight nights ! 
In calm, sultry weather, the musquitoes are very 
troublesome: the atmosphere at times is so thick with 
them ‘‘ that it is almost possible to cut your name out 
among them” a gentleman told me. It requires a little 
manceuvring to keep them out of the tent. The best 
plan is, on entering, to close the entrance as quickly as 
possible, and then to commence “blowing a cloud,” 
when they will congregate in the top of the tent, and 
can thus more readily be disposed of with a damp 
towel, or bough of birch wood. 
Lax Etyv is at the bottom of the Porsanger Fjord, 
and is about eighty miles east of Hammerfest. It has 
not a very large body of water. The banks are but 
thinly inhabited, so that a tent is quite necessary. 
Salmon run up about thirty-five miles. The steamer 
stops at Kistrand, about twenty-five miles from the 
mouth. Men should be engaged at Kistra, and some 
arrangement be made about the fishing. Information 
can be obtained from the Pastor, Foged, or Handelsmand. 
This river will be too small to remain there all the 
