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He had left a large depot at Sarna to take up on their 

 return journey, and could only depend upon a chance 

 supply until they should reach Kora^s. Hungry as 

 they were, they must live on fish till then. The higher 

 up the mountains they came the hungrier they grew, 

 and the keener the relish they had for animal food. 



c It is too provoking, just as we come upon the line 

 of the reindeer, that we can't get it now while it is so 

 nice and fat,' grumbled the hungry ones. 



1 Dearths foreseen come not,' said Nasman re- 

 proachfully to Emporelius. 



1 We have a proverb in Sm&land too,' said Linnaeus ; 

 * that " one is sure of a supper if there's plenty in the 

 knapsack." Now let us all go out and fish.' 



' The river is swarming. They are flopping and 

 smacking about in all directions ; but, oh, dear ! why 

 did Heaven make midges ? * said Reuterholm major, com- 

 plaining (like our Kingsley) of Nature's inexhaustible 

 opulence. 



' For our collections, to be sure,' said Emporelius, 

 the zoologist. 



' Nasman says nothing,' remarked Clewberg. < He 

 is thinking of " After meat, mustard." ' 



1 A close mouth catches no flies,' mumbles Nasman, 

 drawing on his gauze cap.' 



Emporelius was no busier than the rest of the party 



in completing his insect collection. Before supper each 



one of them had slain a hecatomb of pertinacious flies. 



The insect collection made in this expedition is very 



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