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with. The Horn Lake contains the following fish, 

 all of which, except the roach and bullhead, I either 

 caught myself or saw caught. They are as follows: 

 the great lake trout, the brown trout, perch, pike, 

 char, eel, gwynniad, carp, bullhead, roach and gray- 

 ling. Above the fir zone only trout and char are 

 found, and above the upper birch region all fish life 

 disappears. 



The dull rush of the rapids at Gaikvik, where the 

 big fish lie, some miles away, is indistinctly heard. 

 In the same direction we catch a glimpse of the extra- 

 ordinary wooden church called Lofmock, without a 

 parson or any signs of life, except when some Lapps 

 come in the winter with their reindeer sledges across 

 the lake to worship (and to get drunk, unfortunately 

 also, on vodki). After getting some wild duck and 

 trout cooked, and some coffee, I left Gaikvik, with its 

 four red-coloured log-houses, soon far behind. It is 

 in reality a place, compared with others, of the first 

 importance. Under all the eaves were dozens of swal- 

 lows' nests, while the birds themselves darted and 

 soared round and overhead after the myggskrank 

 (Culex pipiens\ and the knotten (Simulia reptans\ 

 and the hya, and the Ceratopogon pulicaris well 

 (bother scientific names), after gnats' and midges of 

 various descriptions as found in Lapland. 



From the middle of June to the end of August is 

 the reign of the mosquito throughout the whole of 

 Lappmark and Finmark and many other places on 

 both sides of the Arctic circle. Hutchinson, who 



