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(1888) [MARC] Author: Albert Alberg
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52 The Floral King.

down here was so hot that I might have grizzled
herrings on the flat stones, the grass was the height
ofa man. I lay down and eat wild strawberries and
mesomora, I also found its variations. No wooden
enclosures, the pigs are tethered with ropes, the
tillage land sown with a mixture of oats, no rye, eat
oatmeal bread. By the sea we saw ebb and flood,
and many shells, balani, stelleez, maving. I rested the
14th July, and lodged a couple of days by the sea-
shore with a skipper from the ‘‘ Norifjord,” eat there
cod-fish, smoked salmon. I accompanied a Lapp
and ship’s boat a bit out to sea. I came to pastor
Rask, in Vorsta vicarage, a Norwegian parson who
had been in Africa; the 16th saw his description
in MSS. A hawker from Westgothland, was every-
where spoken about, he had told great yarns. I
found that our clergy everywhere had wine.

“T again travelled over the Alps towards Tornea
Lappmark, had no time to go farther into Kaitoma
than forty miles (260 English) from the sea shore,
and farther forty miles to the melting furnace,
Kuikjok. In Kaitoma, the people fled as I ap-
proached; in the forest I found nothing different

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