1 86 Angling Travels in Norway. 



and for a few weeks together they are glad to take 

 visitors for less. 



For a house to accommodate three or four persons, 

 Kr.20 to Kr.25 per week is ample rent, and in private 

 houses, where one lives with the family, Kr.3 per day 

 includes board and lodging. 



In the farmhouses up-country they can rarely provide 

 beyond bread, butter, milk, eggs, and coffee, and for these, 

 with attendance, it is the best plan to arrange a daily 

 charge per head— say about Kr.l in addition to the rent. 



The country-folks rarely indulge in meat beyond dried 

 mutton, which they eat uncooked ; but it is generally 

 possible to purchase a sheep for Kr.l 3 to Kr.l 4, which, 

 however, it may take a day or two to procure from the 

 feeding grounds upon the fjelds. All other provisions 

 must be taken up by the traveller, except in situations 

 where reindeer exist. 



I retraced my steps to the boat, and we soon had 

 our kit on a hay-cart and conveyed to our new domicile ; 

 then, having arranged for a meal, we unpacked, and got 

 into a change of clothes after our twenty-four hours' 

 journey, preparatory to the evening fishing. 



The situation of the hamlet of Svardal is most pic- 

 turesque ; its houses and farm buildings nestle together 

 upon a few acres of rich land, through which the river 

 connecting Vadsseth and Svardal Lake winds its way. 



