64 TRAVELS IN THE EIGHTIES. 



the kitchen and family bedroom, where five girls, 

 four boys, three women and one man were stowed 

 away, but how or where they were enabled to find 

 sufficient room for themselves, or why they preferred 

 being so crowded together, when abundant space 

 was available elsewhere, I was quite unable to deter- 

 mine. 



I must now describe the three days I spent in fishing 

 with my host, a Lapp-Bonder, or Swedish settler in 

 Lapland. The morning after my arrival I went out, 

 accompanied by the whole of the family, and stationing 

 myself on the rocks on the banks of the river near the 

 village, and opposite to a large island, I fastened on to 

 half a length of coarse gut two trout-flies known, 

 I believe, as a grey gnat and a yellow palmer, using 

 my twelve-foot green-heart, and captured a large gray- 

 ling " before I knew where I was." This must have 

 been the exact spot where, forty years ago, a party of 

 three English enjoyed splendid grayling and trout fish- 

 ing. I was pleased to learn from "P. S. W.," who, 

 writing to the Field, states having seen two letters of 

 mine in that paper describing Lapland travel ; and that 

 they, too, passed through Arjeploug coming from the 

 Windel Eiver. It appears since then no one had angled 

 at this spot, or, perhaps, anywhere else in the Shellefteo. 

 Letting out five yards in the strong current, grayling 

 after grayling was hooked and fought hard, spreading 

 out its iridescent fins and jerking desperately at the 

 line until each in its turn was laid in triumph on the 

 stones. The family fished with the other rod, a salmon 



