3l6 THE LAPLAND ALPS. 



mixed with milk, and put into large barrels. 

 When it has stood by for some time, it 

 acquires an agreeable sourish taste, quite 

 difterent from the flavour of the fresh plant. 

 The barrels thus filled are preserved in holes, 

 dug in the ground for the purpose, either 

 lined with brickwork, or with birch bark, 

 to protect them from rats or mice. 



Another boy came in with as much as he 

 could carry in his arms of the stalks of 

 Angelica (sijlvestris) which had not yet 

 flowered. The people stripped oft' the 

 leaves, and by means of a knife peeled the 

 stalks, the skin of which came oft^ like 

 hemp. They ate the remainder as they 

 would an apple, thinking it a great delicacy. 

 I partook of it with them. The broad 

 sheathing footstalks of the leaves, which en- 

 fold the young umbels, not being esteemed 

 good to eat fresh, were peeled, and added 

 to the syra, see p. 243, which was destined 

 to miikejwnomjölk, see p. 273. 



