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332 TRAVELS
perfifted in our requett, the young men began to examine their
fhirts, as well as thafe of the girls, and there was a general hunt
for the little animal we wanted. The poor flea was never chafed
with fo much anxiety as on the prefent occafion, One of the girls
withdrew for a little, and foon returned holding faft her prey. We
ftrung the victim upon the needle of the microfcope, and fhewed
it to our audience. It is impoffible to exprefs the geftures, the
exclamations, the cries of admiration, which the fight of this ani-
mal of wondrous fize drew from them. Luckily the inftrument
was of no great confequence, or I fhould have thought it in much
danger of being broken in a thoufand pieces. Our {fpectators,
male and female, fnatched it out of one another’s hands with the
moft aftonifhing impatience. They never feemed tired of examin-
ing the different limbs and form of the little animal, accuftomed
to live at their expence.
From Hutta to Kemi is about eighteen miles, which we ac-
complifhed on Monday the 10th of June.
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