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440 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
A certain fpecies of fifh, of moft excellent flavour, called in the Norwegian Blege, is
to be found in the fame lakes; its fkin is very fmooth,-reddifh colour under the belly,
the reft of the body white, inclining to a filvery hue.
The perch belong alfo to the lake fith of Finmark, which the Laplanders call Vu/ffon ;
alfo a certain fmall fifth, white fkin, of excellent flavour, called in Norwegian Siik, the
fith called by the Laplanders Haerre ; as alfo another furnifhed with fharp fins, in other
refpects not unlike the herring: the Laplanders call it Zhjofzbja ; to which is alfo
added another, called in Lapland Ruoude-Golmek, fmall, but furnifhed with very fharp
fins.
Trout, and their various fpecies, all the beft of their kind, here are to be met with.
The Laplanders ufually give them different names, fuch as Damok, Vaalas, Guuvzhja ;
and all thefe the moft excellent. I never tafted any equal to them.
In the lakes of Finmark bordering on Ruflia, a certain fifh is faid to be found, not
very unlike the carp, either in fhape or tafte.
In fummer the Laplanders fifh in the lakes with cafting nets, as well as wove nets.
Yet in fome parts of Lapland it is a cuftom to faften various beams at the bottom of
lakes, to which rope lines are fixed, furnifhed with hooks, made from the juniper-tree,
on which the bait is put ; by which method of fifhing they fometimes take a large num-
ber of fith.
In the winter, when all places are bound with froft, they catch fifh by letting down
nets in the ice, and in this manner: they join certain long poles together, connecting
the one with the end of the other; nets are faftened to thefe poles fo joined, and a rope
fixed at each end of the whole order. ‘Thus prepared, they break the ice with an axe,
and opening a way, let down the nets into the lake, to be carried on to another opening
formed in the ice from the oppofite fide, obferving this order, that the lower edge of the
nets fo extended fhould touch the very bottom, the upper being turned to the ice; and
left the line of nets may be broken by the continual motion of the waters, they take care
that each end of the whole chain of them fhould be faftened with a ftrong rope to cer-
tain ftakes erected in the ice, and driven down as far as poflible. Fifhing nets are
commonly done round with a rope from twifted hemp ; but the Laplanders, as wanting
hemp very much, make ufe of in its place the very thin fibres of trees. In the place of
cork, which other fifhermen fix to the upper part of their nets, that they fhould more
eafily arife, the Laplanders not unufually fix the outward bark of the birchen-tree; with |
which bark alfo it is their cuftom to join little {tones to the lower part of the nets, that
they may go down to the bottom.
If that part only of the lake adjoining the land is frozen up and covered with ice, the
Laplander leans down over the bank to fee what fifh may be at the bottom, where fhould
he fee any; he rolls down a piece of ice, cut with an axe from the edge of the frozen
part, on the fifh with great dexterity, to crufh him by the weight of it: this mode of
fifhing the Laplander can only practice in the fhallows of the lakes.
Among the frefh-water fifth of Finmark the falmon is by right to be firft mentioned.
This fith is called by the Laplanders in general Lwoos ; but the male, Goaaigjem ; female,
Duovve.. The falmon with a rough {kin is called in Lapland Koms. The Norwe-
gians call the {mall falmon in their language, Tart.
The river Thana, flowing through eaftern Finmark, is the moft diftinguifhed river of
thofe that are abounding in fifh, of which there are many. This river takes its rife in
the moft remote mountains of Lapland, rufhing through plains, vallies, and mountains,
ina full and free channel, until increafed by various torrents and fmaller rivers, it emp-
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