266 Angling Travels in Norway. 



Of recent years a Lapp has been known to kill in the 

 neighbourhood of Storjord five bears and many wolves 

 in a season. The bears are captured in the springtime, 

 and the wolves they hunt when the snow is deep and soft, 

 for in this the beast sinks, while the Lapp on his long 

 wooden runners (ski) runs him down and kills him with 

 a stick. 



Knowing the Forstassistent to be a Government official, 

 the Lapps frequently request him to address his chiefs on 

 their behalf upon many subjects, and during their visits 

 in winter, in common humanity, he is obliged to give 

 them shelter in some outhouse against the intense cold 

 of night. 



Lapp names are not uncommon in the district — for 

 instance, the Viskis, the name of a tributary of the Lons 

 river, a tributary of the Salten ; and about the valley 

 one occasionally meets with specimens of humanity whose 

 appearances testify to a cross between Norsk and Lapp 

 blood. 



In the vicinity of this valley the natives apply them- 

 selves assiduously to the capture of Type, etc., when they 

 are easiest to get — viz. in the winter, for then the birds 

 descend into the valleys for food and shelter, and, by 

 reason of the temperature, they can be safely despatched 

 to foreign markets. 



The favourite method to trap the rype is by building a 



