128 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



rarely afford any milk. There are no cut- 

 ting teeth in its upper jaw. This animal 

 certainly ruminates, as Ray rightly judged, 

 notwithstanding the reports to the contrary 

 collected in his Synopsis of Quadrupeds 

 (p. 88, 89)- The females are horned as 

 well as the males, which is proper to this 

 order of quadrupeds, but the horns of the 

 females are more slender than those of the 

 other sex. 



In the country of Lapmark crawfish as 

 well as fleas are unknown. 



In the evening of the 1st of June we 

 came to an island occupied by fishermen. 

 They were peasants from Granoen, a place 

 eight miles distant. They had built them- 

 selves a house without a chimney, so that 

 the smoke could escape only by the door. 

 They had however a couch to sleep on. 



The fish, of which they had collected 

 about sixteen pounds, was hung up in the 

 hut to dry. It was chiefly Pike, with some 

 Char {Salmo alpinus). 



The fat parts, with the intestines, aftep 



