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THROUGH LAPLAND. 7
cafe one of the men threw himfelf into the water, {wam up to
them, and fet them afloat again. At laft we came to a place
where the extreme force of the cataract, the depth of the water,
and the obftructions from the rocks, rendered it to appearance al-
together impoffible to continue our progrefs. Our brave Simon
was the only perfon who thought every thing poffible. The reft
feemed difpofed to find fault with his daring projects, which they
never leflened; but, on the contrary, magnified through their
fears. But he was always the firft to fet an example of the mott
unwearied patience and adtivity; he conftantly charged himfelf
with the execution of the moft arduous and laborious part of the
undertaking, and never propofed a thing in which he did not
referve for himfelf the moft difficult and hazardous offices it
impofed: in fhort, no perils could daunt his fpirit, no toils fet
bounds to his exertions. He hauled the boat, he difengaged it
when it ftuck faft ; he was the firft to leap into the water when-
ever occafion required, and feemed to do every thing himfelf
alone.
While our Finlanders were difplaying the moft heroic perfeve-
rance on the river and on its banks, the utmoft we could do was
to keep up with them in the adjacent wood. It was not always
poffible to follow them clofe to the river, as we were not, like them,
able to jump from one rock to another. The current too fome-
times produced a giddinefs in the head, and we were unwilling to
wet our legs by wading through the water. Another fpecies of fa-
tigue {till awaited us in the woods: we funk here and there fo
deep
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