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Rost at the Extreme End of the Lofoten Islands Has Its Wireless Station. In the 
Foreground the Nets Are Hung up to Dry, and Beyond Are the “Hjells” Hung with 
Fish Drying. The Big Building Is the Cod Liver Oil Factory 
it in the hold—the fishermen are free to go ashore or into their cabin, as 
the case may be, and to have their dinner prepared by the youngest 
“man” in the crew. In former days the diet consisted of fish with 
liver and roe, supplemented by the contents of the wooden chest which 
each man brought from home, dried mutton, milk-acid, butter, and 
the thin “flat’’-bread. Now there is margarine for butter, canned 
meat for dried, and condensed milk with coffee—the latter in enormous 
quantities—instead of the milk-acid and the beer and brandy formerly 
sold to the fishermen. 
After dinner there is the bait to be fetched from the bait-steamer, 
the gear to clear up and re-bait, and a visit to be made to the telegraph 
office to see the latest news about fishing and prices elsewhere. If the 
prospects in another part of the island group seem better, the fisher¬ 
man may often be tempted to shift the base of his operations to another 
port. The telegraph service is now extended to every cove and inlet 
of Lofoten. Even the islands far out to sea are in telegraphic com¬ 
munication with the outside world, often by means of the wireless, as 
at Rost and Vsero. 
On an ordinary day there is little leisure, but it often happens in 
the winter that the men will be stormbound in port for days together, 
