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seeing us they made a sudden swerve and galloped back through 

 the wood. A buck Reindeer was observed by the other two 

 members of our party. A great many Blue and Coal Tits were 

 to be seen on the fir trees. The sharp scream of a. Buzzard and 

 the hoarse croak of a Raven were heard. At about 11 a.m. we 

 came to a reed-fringed lake, Moskjaure, which we crossed, arid 

 then proceeded over some thickly-wooded undulating ground till 

 we saw below us the great Udjaure, the middle section of the 

 great Horn Lake. The scenery was extremely beautiful ; the 

 shores of the lake were covered with sweetly-perfumed shrubs. 

 Having found a boat, we rowed across the lake to a farmhouse 

 on an island, Norrholm, where we had our mid-day rest. Here 

 there was a long narrow plank beneath the eaves which supported 

 the House Martins' nests. We were shown the skull of an 

 enormous Pike taken from the lake. In front of the house large 

 families of ducks were playing and bathing in the water most 

 unconcernedly. Besides these one frequently saw an old duck 

 surrounded by ten to thirty young ones ; on the approach of 

 the boat they would all get up to the surface, and half-flying, 

 half-paddling, make a furious rush along the top for some yards, 

 when they would settle down till the boat catching them up again 

 made another "flap" necessary. At about three o'clock we 

 started again to row to Arjeplong, the capital town of the district 

 of Lappmark, a county as large as Yorkshire, passing several 

 divers and families of ducks on the way. We arrived at Arje- 

 plong, a little village with a church, a post-office, a guest-house, 

 and a tendsman, or policeman, in time for an evening's Grayling 

 fishing, when I observed a good many families of ducks and some 

 immature Goosanders (Fiskande) on the Homafran. Four days 

 were spent fishing at Arjeplong on the rapids with which the 

 Shellefteo river connects the Homafran and the Udjaure. 



Aug. 22nd. One of the inhabitants went out shooting and 

 bagged eight birds — two immature Wigeon, a female Goosander, 

 and the rest Red-throated Divers. As usual, I saw a great many 

 families of ducks, and a good many Hooded Crows and Magpies. 

 A pair of Buzzards were always to be seen round and about the 

 rapids near the village, and a pair of Great Grey Shrikes. 

 Lemmings swarmed, the dogs killed a great many daily ; 1891 was 

 what is called a " Lemming year." On one of the islands in 

 between the series of rapids was a fine young buck Reindeer, 



