[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . ike all mountaineers, the natives love their country dearly. Friday, 24:th.—No Lapps appeared, so went to the riverand bathed, and then went out duck-shooting with thedocker and the parson, and Marcus, in two boats ; Gueppe(the dog) following in his own four-oar. The whole valley is one maze of narrow canals windingthrough the forest, with clay banks thickly clad with grass,willow, and birch. At times it was difficult to shove theboat through them. Every here and there these canal
[Frost and fire : natural engines, tool-marks and chips : with sketches taken at home and abroad by a traveller] . ike all mountaineers, the natives love their country dearly. Friday, 24:th.—No Lapps appeared, so went to the riverand bathed, and then went out duck-shooting with thedocker and the parson, and Marcus, in two boats ; Gueppe(the dog) following in his own four-oar. The whole valley is one maze of narrow canals windingthrough the forest, with clay banks thickly clad with grass,willow, and birch. At times it was difficult to shove theboat through them. Every here and there these canals openout into shallow lakes, overgrown with long grass; and intothese the docker and I plunged, wading up to our waists, andblazing away at the ducks as they rose. Gueppe, in themeantime, who hunted entirely on his own account, plungedabout near us, barking loudly when he could not get nearbirds which he found. He is a sharp-nosed brute, like a darkbrown fox, with a bushy tail curled tightly over his back, andhe looks as unlike a water-dog as possible. He swims like 312 DENUDATION—FROST-MARKS— a fish all the same. Eeturned to the manse with twenty-three clucks, of which I killed fifteen, Gueppe three, and theparson and his clerk the rest. Their gun was a marvelloustool. There were teal, widgeon, pintail, and a brown duckwhich I did not know. There were also a tail and leg whichseemed to belong to a widgeon, but Gueppe ate the rest. Itwas so warm that I left my coat in the boat; the dockerwore neither shoes nor coat, and though wet for many hours,we were quite warm all day. In the evening, while busilydrawing with one hand, and rubbing my midge-bitten facewith the other, I was startled by the sudden appearance ofthe Lapp cow-general, with his flock of sheep at his wretch had tied a handkerchief over his ears to keep offthe flies, and witli his long mountain-pole on his shoulder,and his strange tattered garments fluttering about his quaintlimbs, he look
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