224 A SPRING AND SUMMER IN LAPLAND. 



grouse, and in the evening I bade adieu to the 

 forest. 



On the next morning I left my friend's house, 

 after a happy and interesting visit, carrying away 

 a small elk- steak, as he called a large junk of 

 about 701b., just to show them at home that I had 

 been in at the death; and as I jogged home on 

 one of those infernal bone-setting machines which 

 the peasants here call carts, I could not help 

 thinking to myself that there are few countries in 

 Europe where a man can enjoy so much sport for 

 so little money as in old Sweden, and few kinder- 

 hearted or more hospitable fellows under the sun 

 than a true Swedish country gentleman. 



The bear (TJrsus arctos, Lin.) is very common 

 around Quickiock; but I have already alluded 

 to him. 



The glutton (Gulo borealis, Lin.; " jerf," Sw.) 

 appeared to be common on the fells. I never saw 

 one wild ; but the Laps, one morning, brought an 

 old female and a young one which they had shot 

 on the fells. The skeleton of the glutton seems 

 to be much sought after here. I bought three 

 very perfect skeletons, and gave a high price for 

 them. The glutton does not seem, however, to be 

 confined to the very north of the country, for 

 wherever the wild reindeer is met with (and these 



