l62 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



food through the deep snow that covers it, 

 and by which it is protected from the se- 

 vere frosts. 



The reindeer feeds also on frogs, snakes, 

 and even on the Lemming or Mountain Rat 

 {Mils Lemmiis), often pursuing the latter 

 to so great a distance as not to find his way 

 back again. This happened in several in- 

 stances a few years ago, when these rats 

 came down in immense numbers from the 

 mountains. 



The Pike pairs in this neighbourhood as 

 soon as the river becomes open. I met 

 with some strangers who had been six or 

 eight miles, or more, to the north of 

 Lycksele, and had resided there on a fish- 

 ing party ever since Easter. I accompanied 

 one of them to his hut. Each man had 

 collected about twenty pounds of fish, 

 which were drying. 



It is certainly very unjust that these 

 people, settled more than eight miles down 

 the country on the other side of Lycksele 

 church, should drive the native Laplanders 



