14 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
this evil, but the remissness of the authorities who 
should see that the regulations are carried out is so 
palpable that the law is comparatively a dead letter. 
There is a nice little stream about seventeen miles 
further out in the Fjord, by Talvig Preestegaard, where 
there are one or two good places. The fish do not run 
large there. Also two rivers at the bottom of Qvoen- 
anger Fjord may be tried; they often hold good fish. 
Char will generally take a fly greedily im all these rivers. 
Reisen Env, to the south of Alten, is a fine river. 
It lies about fifty miles east of Tromsoe, in a valley 
running over that distance into the interior. It has 
a good body of water, with several fosses of no great 
height. Salmon run up a long way. Owing to the 
character of the stream, they will not take a fly, I am 
informed, though they are exceedingly abundant. 
An acquaintance of mine travelled by land, m 1859, 
from Bosekop to the Reisen Ely, or rather, by land to 
Qvoenanger Fjord, about fifty-five English miles, and 
thence by boat by the islands of Spilderen and Kaago 
to the Reisen. ‘*I reached Reisen,” he informed me, 
“at 6p. M., and got excellent quarters at Landhandler 
Lund’s; at ten, walked about two English miles up 
the river to investigate it (in fact, the main reason of 
my expedition). The water was very thick, and they 
told me it was often soin summer. The first fishing 
place is about fourteen English miles up the river, and 
