278 Angling Travels in Norway. 



country, or, to put it iu another way, the food is filling 

 at the price, but it has not much " stay" in it. 



Under the kind auspices of the steward, I enjoyed a 

 two-berthed cabin all the way back — or rather, I should 

 say, as far as Molde, where the ship was full up — and by 

 chance there came on board a nice little Lofotenske piye, 

 quite the prettiest of her race, whom I had met a few 

 weeks earlier in the season. 



The ways of Norwegian ladies are somewhat uncon- 

 ventional en voyage, and I have met them travelling iu 

 parties and singly without escort, but it is the mode of 

 the country, especially in the north, where every courtesy 

 is extended to them. Upon the occasion of our first 

 meeting I took the Lofotenske i^ige out fishing for a little 

 while upon two or three occasions ; she knew not- a word 

 of English, but when she hooked a fish she used to amuse 

 me, as, turning round, she would say, " Yay veel, vhat 

 dou say, trag dee sool oot af heem ? " And, no mistake, 

 she did. 



I should not forget to mention that within a few hours 

 of Bod^ there is a new place for tourists, but as yet it is 

 only visited by the Norwegians of Nordland, and, conse- 

 quently, there would be no annoyance by the objectionable 

 class of British tourist, who seems to be now neglecting 

 his favourite Isle of Man for the fjords. 



Sulitjelma is about twelve hours by boat up a fjord 



