286 THE LINTU-LAUTA. 



capture of wild ducks and other fowl. It consists of a 

 raft, so to say, constructed of plank ends, and about four 

 feet square. B B are imbarked sticks, some twelve inches 

 in height ; C C a line passed through the upper part of 

 these sticks, thus forming a kind of railing ; D D other 

 lines connecting the latter with the raft itself, and between 

 which the snares, composed of horsehair, or other suitable 

 material, are arranged in due order, as seen in the above 

 sketch. The "Lintn-Lauta " is moored in an opening in 

 the ice, at the breaking up of the frost in the spring, and 

 baited with the roots and leaves of aquatic plants. In 

 the attempts made by the hungry fowl to obtain access 

 to these delicacies, very many ai*e captured. 



In Lapland, moreover, at the season in question, wild 

 geese are often taken in snares as shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration. The locality where they are set, 

 should in preference be a low and sandy lamUunga, or 

 neck of land, stretching out into a lake, of about fifty 

 paces in length, by twenty to thirty in breadth. Around 

 the more central parts of this spot the fowler constructs 

 an artificial barrier. This consists of a number of 

 tmbarked sticks, of about the thickness of one's finger, 

 placed zig-zag, at from ten to twelve feet apart, except- 

 ing at the several angles, however, where the space 

 between them is only about ten inches. These sticks, 

 at some ten to twelve inches from the ground, are linked 

 together by a string, or thin glddgad wire.* The snares, 

 from twenty to thirty in numbex", are placed at the angles 

 spoken of, and are kejot in their places by notches cut in 

 the bark of the sticks. Broken straw, barley, and 

 the like, are strewn both outside and inside of the 

 barrier, but the greater portion within it. When the 



* Wire that has been passed through the fire, as well for the ])urpose of 

 discolouring it, as of rendering it more ductile. 



