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ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS, 439
that is let down, begins to move and gradually get up, which is eafily afcertained from
the f{pace, that is between the bottom and the boat, becoming gradually lefs, he finds
that it was nota bottom as he believed, but an immenfe fifh that was hid below. Mean-
time the fifherman is not folicitous about getting away, knowing that this monfter is
very flow in moving, and advances fo flowly, that {carcely within the {pace of two hours
he can rife from tne bottom to the furface of the fea. Yet ishe not altogether negli-
gent of his fituation, finding by the plummet that the monfter, gradually emerging, is
now at no great diftance from the boat. And without delay, the fifherman having
juft got away, he begins to appear above the water with huge and monttrous claws, of a
variety of fizes and fhapes, giving the idea of a wood, thick, with different trees,
{tripped of their bark ; at firft erect in the air, but foon after complicated. ‘The {pecies of
this monfter, how horrid it is and deformed, {carcely can thofe who have feen it, exprefs
with words. ‘The inhabitants of Finmark and Nordland call this monfter Kraken ;
elfewhere through Norway, efpecially among thofe of Carmefund, in the diocefe of Chrif-
tianfand, it is called Brygden, yet trom another marine moniter of the fame name,
defcribed by us, it muft be carefully diftinguifhed.
The fea of Finmark alfo generates the {nake, or marine ferpent, forty paces long,
equalling in the fize of its head the whale, in form the ferpent. ‘This moniter has a
maned neck, refembling a horfe, a back of a grey colour, the belly inclining to white.
On the canicular days, when the fea is calm, the marine ferpent ufually comes up, wind-
ing into various fpirals, of which fome are above, others below the water. ‘The feamen
very much dread this montfter ; nor, while he is coming up, do they eafily entrult them-
felves to the dangers of the deep.
That monfter, which the Norwegians commonly call Hav-Mand, and Hav-Frue,,
many aflirm, to whom credit is due, to have been often feen in thisocean. ‘The male,
which is called in Norwegian Hav-Manden, is defcribed as a monfter refembling a very
robuft man, of full ftature, brown ikin, long beard, hair over the fhoulders. ‘Fhe fe-
miale, or Hav Fruen, is faid to appear in human fhape, long hair, ghaftly vifage ; fome-
times they fay fhe is feen under a different likenefs. But the inhabitants affirm that
thefe monfters are never accuftomed to appear but in a horrid tempeft, not only
dreadful to feamen, but often fatal, which inftantly follows.
And as all feas and bays abound in various kinds of fith, fo no Jake nor river, how-
ever fmall or ignoble, but in proportion to its capacity, contains fifh, either natives of
the {tream, or brought by rivers from the fea into them, all fubfervient to the ufe of
man.
Among the fifh in the lakes of Finmark is found alfo the pike, the genus being called in
the Lapland, Haug, the fpecies, if a little larger, Golees. It feeds on frogs and: toads
in common ; and devours other fifh alfo, as:is well known; nor does it {pare its own
kind. The perch alone is excepted in the number of thofe in danger, protected by the
benefit of its very fharp fins, with which it is armed. ‘The Laplanders kill the pike in
fummer, then accuftomed to. come to the fhores, and when bafking at its fecurity, to
omit other methods by which this fifh is ufually taken.
In the lakes of Finmark a certain fifh is. found, in Norwegian called Lafe, in Lapland
Njak ; nor unlike the fea-fifh Brofmer, defcribed above by us, in fhape as well as.
colour.
In the fame place, that kind of fifh is to be found in great plenty, called-in Lapland
Raudo. Fith of this kind are ufually red under the belly, dark on the back, and are:
much recommended by their delicate flavour.
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