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THE LAKE TROUT.
41
spends all his time in hunting wolves and hears, and
does not catch any.
Arrive at Vik station rather late. The distance is
about twenty-three miles from the landing-place, and
the scenery very fine all the way : vast cultivated slopes,
of the same rich verdure as the banks of the Miosen,
with wooded knolls and islands on the winding river.
Near to Yik the hills form a magnificent
amphitheatre, a fitting council-chamber for a conclave of
giants, the mountain opposite representing the speaker’s
rostrum.
I found the salmon-fisher and the rest of the party
here, and was rather inclined to crow at having done as
much on foot as they had with post-horses.
Breakfasted next morning on fried slices of trout of
extraordinary size, as large as our largest sized salmon,
of deeper colour than salmon, and remarkably
full-flavoured. The trout are, I believe, caught in a
neighbouring lake. Paid 1 mark 12 skillings, or Is. 4t/.,
for supper, bed, and breakfast.
Walked on through a straight valley, into which
several lateral valleys open, each contributing a stream
to the main river, which at one place, near the
battleground of Kringelen, forms a small lake. It was here
that Colonel Sinclair and his band of Scotchmen were
killed while marching on their way to Sweden in 1612.
He was buried in the church of Quam close by, and
a monument erected to his memory stands by the
roadside : it is a small stone pillar, with a carved top, and
no visible inscription.
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