Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 . t of his miffion, and wentonwards, until at length he fell in with two families, whom heconducted with him to the banks of a rivulet called Reftijoki,.where he had left them waiting until we joined them. This intelligence was the fignal for our departure from theifland. Our tent was taken down and packed up, and biddingadieu to our fifliermen we fet forward. We foon reached the mouth of the rivulet, on the banks ofwhich the rendezvous was appointed. We afcended it throughall its windings, and were imp
Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 . t of his miffion, and wentonwards, until at length he fell in with two families, whom heconducted with him to the banks of a rivulet called Reftijoki,.where he had left them waiting until we joined them. This intelligence was the fignal for our departure from theifland. Our tent was taken down and packed up, and biddingadieu to our fifliermen we fet forward. We foon reached the mouth of the rivulet, on the banks ofwhich the rendezvous was appointed. We afcended it throughall its windings, and were impatient to join the Laplanders, leftthey ihould think us long in coming, and grow tired of waitingfor us, for we had conceived na high opinion either of their pa-tience or their complaifance. At length we arrived where theywere. The party was compofed of fix men and a young found them feated under a birch-tree, on the branches ofwhich they had hung up the provifions for the journey, whichconfifted of dry fifh. They lay along the ground in different pof- tures, To /_f?///r///a > /f//////// /^ • THROUGH LAPLAND. 43 tures, furrounding a large fire by which they roaflcd their fifh,which, for this purpofc, was held in cleft flicks, cut from the treewhich fhaded them. The girl was the firft who perceivedus, and pointed us out to the men, who feemed to pay atten-tion only to their cooking, fo that we landed, and walked up tothem, without being the lead noticed or regarded. The menwere clothed in a kind of fmock-frock, made of the fkin of therein-deer, with a collar erecl, and fliffened behind. They worea belt about their waifls, which confined their drefs clofe to theirbodies, and drew it into the form of a bag, wherein they putwhatever they had occafion to carry about with them. They hadpantaloons on, likevvife made of rein-deers fkin, with fhort boots,the foles of which were wide, and fluffed out with dry grafs. Thegirl wore pantaloons
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