ds
of Phosphorescent Lights.--A Light Ahead.--An Arctic
Fair.--A Fishing Settlement.--How the Cod are
Cured.--Fish and Fertilizer Fragrance. 199

XXVIII. Among the Fishermen.--Their Lodgings and How They
Look.--What They Have to Eat.--An Evening of Talk
about Cod, Salmon, and Herring.--The Immense Number
of Fish.--A Snoring Match. 205

XXIX. Departure for the Fishing Banks.--Great Number of
Boats.--More than Five Thousand Oars Fall into the
Water at the Same Time.--Quantities of Buoys and
Glass Balls.--A Notable Catch of Cod. 211

XXX. A Great Viking Sea Fight.--Svein King of Denmark, Olaf King
of Sweden, Erik Jarl of Norway, against King Olaf
Tryggvasson of Norway.--They Lie in Ambush.--Magnificent
Ships.--The _Long Serpent_.--Ready for the Fight.--The
Attack.--The _Jarn Bardi_.--Defeat of Olaf Tryggvasson. 219

XXXI. Sailing along the Coast of Finmarken.--Hammerfest, the
Most Northern Town in the World.--Schools.--Fruholmen,
the Most Northern Lighthouse in the World.--Among the
Sea Lapps.--Men and Women Sailors. 227

XXXII. A Sea Lapp Hamlet.--Strange Houses.--Their
Interiors.--Summer Dress of the Sea Lapps.--Primitive
Wooden Cart.--Animals Eat Raw Fish.--I Sleep in a Sea
Lapp's House.--They Tell Me to Hurry Southward. 232

XXXIII. Comparison of Finmarken with Alaska.--The Two
Lands Much Alike.--What Must be Done for
Alaska.--Colonization.--Importation of
Reindeer.--Protection of Fisheries.--Houses of Refuge. 241

XXXIV. Preparation to Leave the Arctic Coast.--Great Danger of
Encountering Melting Snow, or Rivers Made Dangerous by
the Ice Breaking.--Reindeer Come.--Farewell to the Sea
Lapps.--I Leave for More Southern Land. 244

XXXV. We Enter a Birch Forest.--The Reindeer are Soon
Fagged.--Sleep on the Snow.--The Rays of the Sun Melt
through the Snow.--Great difficulty in Travelling.--Meet
Herds of Reindeer.--Reindeer Bulls Fight Each Other. 249

XXXVI. Variable Weather.--Snowy Days.--An Uninhabited House of
Refuge.--Animals Changing the Color of their Fur.--Mikel
Tells Me about a Bear.-