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THROUGH LAPLAND. 31
general are moft interefting to a curious traveller, becaufe they are
not fo often vifited, and both the country and the people are lefs
known; whereas the larger rivers are more frequented, efpecially
in winter, when they ferve asa high road for thofe that come
from Muonionifca and Torned. Hence the natives that live near
thefe rivers become familiar with ftrangers, and cannot be viewed
fo much in their own natural charaéer, as thofe who are merely
acquainted with the objects that belong to themfelves and their
country. The paflage northward on the Muonio, from Muonio-
nifca to Enonteki, is very fimilar to that from Kengis to Muonio-
nifca, or to that from Upper Tornea to Kengis.
Pallajovenio is a fettlement of Finlanders, confifting of about
four or five families. The merchants of Tornea have built a {mall
place, which confifts of a room, where they can make a fire, and
refrefh themfelves, as they pafs through this colony during the
winter, in their way to the fairs. The people of Pallajovenié ap-
peared to be much at their eafe; their dwellings feemed to be
comfortable and neat, and different from thofe of the other pea-
fants of this country.
We refrefhed ourfelves at this place, and taking our departure,
proceeded on the river Muonio to where it joins the Pallojoki,
which we afcended in order to get to Lappajervi. This paflage,
if performed in a ftraight line, would not be above twelve miles,
but owing to the windings of the river, it made a journey of more
than thirty. The river Pallojoki prefented to us difficulties of a
kind we had not experienced during the whole of our expedition.
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