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THE
PREFACE.
The Reader may please to take notice, that
the diligent and learned Author of this History,
(to the writing of which he was commanded, and
therein assisted by the Chancellor of</i> Sweden) hath in the
whole work taken care to justify what he relates, from the
faith of authentic records, the testimony of Historians,
and the Discourses of Laplanders themselves, with
whom he had ready opportunities of converse. And this
he hath don so precisely, that having in the contexture
of his work, given a full account of what he thought
observable in the writings, or narratives to which he
refers; he afterwards constantly puts down at length the
very words of his Authors, a great part of which are in
the Swedish Tongue. Now in this Edition we have spared
our selves the labor of such repetition; which we hope will not
be regretted by the Reader, who we suppose would not have
bin much edified by them. As to the subject here discours’d
of, twill not be needfull to give a character of it.
Military Action, and those public murders in which other
Histories triumph, have no share here. Hunger, cold and
solitude are enemies that engage all the fortitude of this
People: and where so much passive valor is necessary,
we may dispense with the want of Active. Amidst the
barbarity and darkness which reign in Lapland, there
appear structures of light, which will entertain the eie of
the most knowing observer; as the Stars are no less remarkable
then is the Sun it self. However the Reader will
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