The poor Lapp, who himself has to live on nothing but fish at this time of year as well as feeding his family on it, scarcely gets 1 or 2 fish now. I asked him why he did not complain and he said he had once brought up the question with the authorities in the person of the district judge but the latter had said it was just a triviality. The Lapp regards the pronouncements of crown servants as though they were spoken from the tripod of Apollo annd thus incapable of being erroneous.6 He venerates his king as he does God, and he firmly believes that if the king knew what was happening he would not tolerate it.