A hamper of about six feet in diameter, and the same height, made by the fisherman of the roughest wicker-work, is placed in a side stream of the rock, in the bed of the river.  The anxiety of the salmon to mount up the stream is so great, that he forces himself through a hole into the hamper, as the easiest way of advancing upwards, from which position he cannot again escape.  In this manner, in a favorable season, sixty-three salmon have been caught in one night in a single basket.  It is a source of wealth to the little town of Sand.

At Saevde they held a meeting on First-day morning.

We reached the head of the fiord, writes John Yeardley by 12 o’clock, and found but poor accommodation.  We three had one room with three beds; Endre Dahl with his willing-hearted and contented men lodged in a barn on straw.  There was time enough to arrange for a meeting in the morning, and we applied for a room at the inn; but a little knot of illiberal Haugeans [followers of Hauge], or Saints, as they call themselves, persuaded our landlord not to let us meet in his house.  But we obtained better accommodation under the rocks in a house containing two rooms connected by a passage, and, seating ourselves in the centre, could be well heard by those outside the door.  We had a good meeting.

Returning to Sand, he continues:—­

The wind being against us, the men had to work very hard at the oar to bring us in time for the meeting appointed for 6 o’clock at Sand.  Some of the Friends from near Saevde accompanied us in their small boat; and some from Sand had gone many miles to attend the meeting at Saevde, and returned to the one at Sand.  Their zeal is great and their love fervent.  This was a very crowded meeting, and proved a satisfactory time.  We found here a few of the Saints, but of a more liberal cast; they expressed great grief that their brethren at the head of the fiord had refused the peaceable messengers of the gospel from a far country a house in which to meet.  This unwelcome news had reached them long before our arrival.

At a later date, John Yeardley relates an occurrence which happened at Sand, worthy of note in itself, and which must have been not a little confirmatory of his faith.  It came to his knowledge after his return to Stavanger.

When we were at Sand, one of the Friends who joins in holding the silent meeting invited several of our ship’s company to his house; but the man’s wife was so exasperated that she drove them away, saying she would not have such folks under her roof.  She had confounded the principles of Friends with those of some wild persons who had gone about the country spreading ranterism, and giving the people the idea that they were of our Society.  It was in vain to reason with her, and the husband, for the sake of peace, mildly consented to let the Friends withdraw.  However, she attended our public meeting, where the gospel doctrine of our Society was pretty fully illustrated;