160 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



habit of the plant showed it to be an 

 Astragalus {A. alpinus Fl. Lapp, n. 267- 

 t. 9'f' !•)? which was confirmed bj the 

 last-year's pods, remaining on their stalks. 

 I called it for the present Liquiritia minor 

 (Small Liquorice). 



By this time I became almost starved, 

 having had nothing fit to eat or drink for 

 four days past, neither boiled provision of 

 any sort, nor any kind of spoon-meat. I 

 had chiefly been supported by the dried 

 flesh of the reindeer above mentioned, which 

 my stomach could not well digest, nor in- 

 deed bear except in small quantities. The 

 fish which was offered me I could not taste, 

 even to preserve my life, as it swarmed 

 with vermin. At length I happily reached 

 the house of the curate, and obtained some 

 fresh meat. 



The curate here had caught the Gwiniad 

 {Salmo Lavarctus) five palms in length, 

 which is an unusual size. This fish is 

 remarkable for spawning near Lycksele 

 church about Michaelmas, but in the alps 



