Crossword-Solution: BAKKE 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The men were just then busied in carrying the trough and fishing-tackle [Author’s Note: A “Bakke” consists of three lines, each of 200 Danish ells, or about 135 yards, and of 200 fishing-hooks; the stretched “Bakke” is thus about 200 yards, with 600 hooks; these are attached to the line with strings half an ell long and as thick as fine twine.

Returning down the Mauranger Fjord we steam out across the main fjord, and early in the afternoon call at several small places on the northern shore--Bakke, Vikingnæs, Nordheimsund--each with its spruce hotel, enticing the traveller to loiter and explore the country in the neighbourhood.

Efter en lang Rejse Bakke op og Bakke ned var han saa kommen til to store, hvide Bjærge, og der havde han bedet.

Bakke and Vikingnaes are stations on Hisfjord, Nordheimsund and Östensö on Ytre Samlen, which throws off a fine narrow branch northward, the Fiksensund.

After Dapper, in his compilation, had told the history of the Yagas, who is said in olden time to have spread fear and destruction as far as the coasts of the Loango, a hundred miles away, so that it took three months for caravans to come and go, he proceeds to state that the greater part of the ivory was obtained still farther inland, and was brought from a people who were tributary to the great Makoko, and called Mimos or Bakke-bakke.