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(1889) [MARC] Author: Karl Baedeker
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lcr, and is admirably adapted for affording an insight into the inode
of life among the Lapps. — About 15 Kil. farther to the E. the
Ka-rasjokka unites with the Anurjok, the right bank of which is
Russian territory. The combined rivers form the Tana-Elv, by which
we may descend by boat to Seida (p. 269) in 3-4 days. Travellers
on their way to Nyborg leave the river at Suoppanjarg, 8 Kil. above
Seida (see p. 269). The water of the Tana is auriferous, but the
yield is too small to repay the cost of extracting the gold.

b. From Alten to Håparånda in Sweden.

705 Kil. (437 Engl. 31.). This fatiguing journey occupies 11-13 days.
From Alten to (140 Kil.) Kautokeino 4 days, thence to (200 Kil.)
I/mo-niorara 3-4 days, and from 3Iuoniovara to (365 Kil.) Ilåparända 4-5 days.

Considerable interest attaches to this overland route, and several
points on it have attained celebrity in the scientific world, from its having
been trodden by L. v. Buck, Acerbi. Martins, Bravais, Oscar Schmidt, and
other scholars and naturalists. To this day it possesses attractions for
the ‘scientific traveller and the sportsman, but can hardly be recommended
to the ordinary tourist.

The best time for the journey is between the middle of August and
the middle of September. Earlier in the season the myriads of
mosquitoes are insufferable, and at a later period the days draw in and snow
begins to fall. The traveller’s passport must be visé by a Russian
ambassador or consul (a consul at Hammerfest).

Fbo.m Altex to Kautokeixo (140 Kil. or 87 Engl. M.). The
shorter and preferable route crosses the mountains to the W. of
the Alten-Elv (the longer, about 98 Engl. M., follows the course
of that river). A guide and horses should be engaged for the whole
journey to Karesuando in Sweden. (The charge for a ‘Vappus’ or
guide from Bossekop is 60 kr., and as much more for each of the
two horses which each traveller requires.) Four Fjeldstuer afford
shelter for the nights, but provisions must be taken for the journey.
Heavy luggage should be sent round to Stockholm, or if necessary
to Haparanda, by steamboat and railway; if taken across country,
a third horse will be required to carry it. — The highest part of
the vast mountain-tract which the route traverses is the
Nuppi-varre (2730 ft. ; varre being the Lapp, vara the Finnish word for
mountain). The stations are: Gargiastue (36 Kil.; 360ft. above
the sea), Suolovuobme or Solovom (20 Kil.; 1300 ft.), Piggejavre
(26 Kil.; 9970 ft.), and (52 Kil.) Kautokeino. From Solovom
geologists should pay a visit to the deposits of coal on the
neighbouring Akso- Jarre.

The longer route, following the Alten-Elv (Alatajokki), crosses
the Beskadosfjehl to the Ladnijaure and Masi (810 ft.), in order
to avoid the Sautzofosse, the waterfalls formed by the lower part
of the river; a boat is then taken on the now sluggish Alten-Elv to —

Kautokeino (865 ft.; good quarters at the Landhandler’s, or
at Vorum’s, the Lensmand, who is obliging, and will afford useful
information), a settlement of Lapps and a few Finns, most of
whom are absent in summer, and possessing a church and parsonage.

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