30 THE LAPLAND ALPS. 



July 20. 

 The people here use a kind of bread 

 called Blodhrod (Blood Bread), made of 

 small fresh fish, bruised and mixed with a 

 little quantity of flour. This is baked or 

 roasted on a jack before the fire, but it is 

 used only in hard times. 



out a journey of four hours, over the celebrated 

 mountain of Wallivari in the district of Lulea, to- 

 wards a tract of country which lies about half way 

 between the northern and western part, where it grew 

 in great abundance. 



«* Whilst I was walking quickly along, in a profuse 

 perspiration, facing the cold wind, at midnight ; if 

 I may call it night when the sun was shining without 

 setting at all ; still anxiously inquiring of my inter- 

 preter how near we were to a Lapland dwelling, which 

 I had for two hours been expecting, though I knew 

 not its precise situation ; casting my eager eyes around 

 me in all directions, I perceived as it were the shadow 

 of this plant, but did not stop to examine it, taking 

 it for the E^npetntm. But after going a few steps 

 further, an idea of its being something I was un- 

 acquainted with came across my mind, and T turned 

 back ; when I should again have taken it for the Em- 

 petrum, had not its greater height caused me to con- 

 sider it with more attention. I know not what it is 



