42 A GREENLAND FASHION. 



boulders, a boat, of course, is useless ; nor is it needed, 

 as under such circumstances the salmon always rise 

 quickly enough to the fly. But the fly cannot be used 

 advantageously in an ample river, or loch, or estuary, 

 while in either place harling may safely be adopted. 



The Greenlanders catch the salmon with the hand, or 

 with a forked stick, groping among the great stones where 

 the fish conceal themselves. But the method most com- 

 monly adopted is this : They erect an embankment at the 

 mouth of those streams which discharge their waters into 

 the sea. The embankment is built of stones, so arranged 

 as not to obstruct the flow of the stream ; and for the 

 facilitating this flow, a small sluice is opened up in it. 

 When the tide rises, it easily covers both dyke and sluice, 

 and the salmon has no difficulty in passing : it ascends 

 the stream to a considerable height, and very frequently 

 " forgets itself" in the fresh water; so that, when the tide 

 ebbs and the sluice closes spontaneously, the salmon finds 

 itself imprisoned in a reservoir whose embankment it 

 cannot cross. In a short time it lies almost dry, and the 

 Greenlanders capture their prize without any difficulty. 



In Iceland, the fishermen, stationing themselves on the 

 two banks of a water-course, extend a net right across 

 the latter ; then advancing against the current, they 

 impel before them the unlucky salmon, which, when no 

 longer able to retreat, spring upon the shore. As many 

 as two hundred at a time are caught in this fashion. 



In Finland, the noisiest and most turbulent point of 

 the river is selected, and the waters are pent up in a 



