204 EAST BOTHLAND. 



The prasants of this upper part of East 

 Bothnia, children of darkness in their houses, 

 are no less so in their slovenly appearance, 

 chiefly owing to their uncombed hair. Their 

 breeches reach as low as the feet, and are 

 white, and they wear a sort of short cloak, 

 sewed together in front. — Their disposition 

 is quarrelsome. Their habitations are in- 

 fected with a smell of sour fish, like sour 

 Stroemming, for they are kept very dirty. 

 These people speak no other language than 

 the Finlandish. 



Here and there by the road I had this 

 day travelled, I noticed the Sea Wheat- 

 grass, {Elymus arenarivs. See FL Lapp, 

 ed. 2. n. 34.) 



September 18. 



I travelled from Jo to Ulaborg. The 

 rye was bound into sheaves, ten of which 

 were piled up together in a heap, the ears 

 at the top of each being brought close 

 together, and another sheath being placed, 

 in an inverted position, upon them, the 



