240 Angling Travels in Norway. 



we thus met without much discussion upon the subject 

 beyond that contained in a few lines by post. However, 

 we soon fell to comparing notes as to the sport we had 

 experienced during the previous portion of the season 

 upon our several rivers, and discovered that we both had 

 suffered from the same complaint, viz. that for a month 

 or more we had been flooded out by the effect of the 

 continued hot sun upon the vast quantity of snow 

 bequeathed by the previous winter. 



We soon settled down, consoling ourselves with the 

 idea that at any rate we were about to see a new bit of 

 country, whatever the sport might be. 



In the early morning we put in at Christiansund for 

 an hour or so, and then proceeded on our way to 

 Trondhjem. About midway between these two sea-ports 

 we had to pull up on account of a heated bearing, and 

 during the delay the purser hailed a small fishing-boat, 

 and purchased eight rod fish of about two or three 

 pounds apiece for a krone the lot. 



The fish had been caught by hand-line, and upon 

 asking the men why the eyes of some of the fish were 

 projecting half an inch from the head, and covered with 

 a glass-like film, they said that such fish had been 

 captured in water of 100 fathoms or more deep, and that 

 this was invariably the case under similar circumstances. 



We arrived at Trondhjem at 5 p.m. on Saturday, 



