The Prefecture of Luleå [1]

The vagina in women does not become more ample when they are fat, more likely narrower; the thinner they are, the larger the vagina.

People who are afraid that their children will be scarred by accidents with fire etc. brush a few drops of blood from the umbelicus on their faces, hands and chests when it is being cut, and that prevents it.

Carrots, grated and mixed with arsenic, are said to be a remedy for cockroaches – the latter eat them with pleasure and then they all die.

28th. We spent part of the night in FINNEN whither we had travelled mainly by boat.

In the morning we arrived by boat at STORBACKEN 10 miles further on, from where we have 35 miles on foot to Jokkmokk.

Today we travelled as far as PAJERIM and spent the night in a smoke-house built with a hole in the roof.

Here I found ‘Barbaraea’ [Small-flowered Wintercress] but its lower leaves were not so broad as the garden variety nor were they eared – 4 feet high in thickets.

There were crooked pines in many places around here and the lower parts of them always became hard like boxwood. They make skis and sledge-runners from it and call it “travelling wood”.