402 A SPRING AND SUMMER IN LAPLAND. 



like Lapland. No fear of Old England going to 

 the wall, as long as she can keep up the breed of 

 young men like these. 



We were about seven days between Lulea and 

 Stockholm. We left for Carlstadt the morning 

 after we arrived in Stockholm, and two days' 

 journey brought us back to that good old town, 

 having been in all about sixteen days on the road ; 

 and when I unpacked my collection, I had the 

 satisfaction of finding that not one egg was broken 

 or a skin injured. The trip cost little more than 

 £100 in all. The journey was far less trouble- 

 some than I had anticipated, and left upon my 

 mind a very different impression from that which 

 the same journey seems, some years ago, to have 

 impressed on the mind of a querulous old French- 

 man, who wound up a description of his trip to 

 Lapland in this manner : " Thus ended a course 

 which I would not have left unmade for all the 

 gold in the world, and which I would not for all 

 the gold in the world make over again." 



I shall now take my leave of the reader, in 

 the hope that, if he has borne with me to the end, 

 he will have derived both amusement and instruc- 

 tion from the perusal of my Lap notes, and have 

 obtained a slight insight into the fauna of this 

 wild and interesting land. It were impossible 

 from the experience of a single season to give 



