50 TRAVELS IN THE EIGHTIES. 



char became numerous, and trout are found in in- 

 credible numbers ; but since their dimensions are only 

 moderate, and gaining the upper parts of the rivers 

 necessitates a long and tedious journey, they will 

 form no strong attraction to the angler. In some of 

 the lower waters, where the volume of the stream is 

 heavy, correspondingly large trout are to be caught. 



Perhaps the best way to reach Lapp fishing is to 

 take a Wilson steamer to Gothenburg, and the rail 

 to Stockholm, whence a coasting steamer lands the 

 traveller at the mouth of any chosen river, where a 

 comparatively large town is nearly sure to be situated. 



But I had decided to cross Lapland from the North 

 Sea to the Gulf of Bothnia. Taking steamer, there- 

 fore, from Hull to Trondhjem, I there changed into a 

 coasting boat, and reached Bodo in about a fortnight 

 after leaving English shores. I thought it would be 

 an interesting journey to follow the Shellefteo Eiver 

 from its source to the sea, and therefore journeyed 

 from Bodo inland by the Junkersdal to a point upon 

 the main Swede-Norwegian divide named Markness, 

 close to which was situated one of the main sources of 

 the river. I found it consisted of a diminutive log 

 hut high up on the great watershed between Nor- 

 wegian and Swedish Lapland, and the stream that 

 flows past it may be called the source of the Shellefteo. 

 During the journey towards the sea, a distance of 

 several hundred miles, I made it a rule, partly for 

 food and partly for sport, to fish all the streams con- 

 necting the inland lakes together, while my luggage 



