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50 The Floral King.
bread. We arrived in Halli-wari, always proceeding
upwards, stones and earth, tall herbs, napellus,
sonchus, &c.: V. Catal rubekij (Rudbeckii Ol. fil.:
Index plant, precipuarum in itinere Laponico (1995),
collectarum Upsal (1720) Actis hit. Suec, insertus,)
curiosa saxifragia; saw there mountains towering
upon mountains covered with snow, no trees, no
roads, no forest. We had also a Lapp with us, who
had bought brandy from the parson’s wife, carried it
in a reindeer bladder. The Lapp was aggravated
since I stopped now and then collecting herbs,
which I found. We walked in shoes, else no one
can proceed, made of ox-hide, colored red. The
snow does not appear smooth, but rugged, like
wavelets, with raised portions, caused by wind. The
Alpine Lapps, kindly disposed people, their abodes
grey baize on laths, where I stood under I could look
out through the flue. There came home a herd of
reindeer, some 700; a kind of gadfly greatly prevails
among them. They milked them; the milk boiled,
tasted like egg and milk, thick and nutritious.
“The Lapp took water in his mouth and washed
the spoon with it; the hairs of the reindeer I skim-
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