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CHAPTER XVII. 
THE HIGHLANDS OF THE SWEDISH DIVIDE — Continued, 
Lovsjoli and the Luru River. 
Oub quarters require a passing word. The equipment 
included a two-man “ explorer’s tent,” six feet by eight, 
enabling us to work outlying forests; but our main 
reliance was on the five log-huts and sseters of the 
backwood bonders which lay scattered at twenty or 
thirty-mile intervals within our domain. No more 
kindly and obliging folk exist than these forest-farmers ; 
they are, moreover, born hunters, and we became the 
best of friends. Their log-huts are scrupulously clean, 
as were, in every case, the woolly sheep-skins between 
which we slept in wooden bunks. 
Never “roughing it” merely for roughness’ sake 
(though prepared to take all odds for sport), we had 
brought with us, besides commissariat reserve, a hand¬ 
maiden whose “ character ” was given in these words : 
“ Karen can cook good, she is never ill sometimes, and 
she can run on the mountains like a man.” This we 
found true in word and fact. Cooking necessarily 
presupposes the existence of material. This condition 
fulfilled, we fared sumptuously ; otherwise—but we try 
to forget those feasts on fiadbrod and fell-berries. The 
