34 DAN MEINERTZHAGEN'S DIARY. 



At the end of the service, the parson, according 

 to Isak, gave out that there was going to be a 

 funeral on Tuesday, and on Wednesday at 

 ten o'clock there would be some cows sold, and 

 since he was acting as auctioneer, gratis, he 

 would, if no one objected, pocket the collection 

 himself. 



Of course all eyes were turned on us 

 during the service, and Isak says, that our 

 coming here is quite the event of the year, 

 and will be talked about for many years 

 to come. 



At Tromso, where we were the first "tourists' ' 

 as they called us, the local newspaper got hold 

 somehow of our names, and in a paragraph 

 concerning us gave full descriptions of our 

 journey, concluding by saying that we had 

 come here to fish, and with that object had 

 taken the fishing and also the shooting of the 

 Muonio river and valley. The fishing I sup- 

 pose would be some 500 miles in extent, not 

 counting small rivers, and the shooting some 

 10,000 square miles. I wonder what they 

 thought we had paid for it. It also said 

 "with a view to buying it" and yet they 

 put us up at the principal hotel for 6 kr. a day. 

 They would be astonished to hear that we are 

 living here at i kr. a day. 



