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200 THROUGH NORWAY WITII A KNAPSACK.
every barrel at the dark enemy above, and succeeded
in frightening him away.
After ascending to the first ridge, I found the track,
which soon led to another valley, and from thence
up the side of another mountain to a higher ridge.
The night was now sufficiently dark to render it very
difficult to keep the track: as long as it continued on
rocky ground, it was easy enough, the angles of the
stones being white where the lichen had been worn away
by the feet; but whenever it broke upon a patch of
reindeer moss, it was so far obliterated as to be no longer
traceable. I had to cross such patches continually, and
then to zigzag to then right and left till I came upon the
stony track. This added considerably to the distance,
which was computed by the men at the saeter as four or
five hours’ walk. At one spot, where a large moor had
to be crossed, I wandered aside for above half an hour,
being misled by a heap of stones, which I supposed to be
a track-beacon; such things being common hereabouts,
it was erected for this purpose, but it marks another
track, which led me quite away from my course.* Being
now in a prudent state of mind, I turned back to the
point at which I lost the track, and went on zigzag till I
again found it. I toiled 011 thus over angular blocks,
through bogs, and across small streams, with mist and
* The track I followed is on the south side of the lake, or tarn,
from which the river running to Skardvangen originates. On
Wali-gorski’s and Wergland’s map the track from Skardvangen to Skeaker
is marked on the N. side of this lake. The heap of stones referred
to was at the head of this lake, and the path I came upon bent round
the lake. It was probably that marked 011 the map.
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