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38 TRAVELS
witnefles ourfelves of their reality. To this determination the
fuccefs of our undertaking is chiefly to be afcribed.
We were given to underftand that we might poffibly meet with
fome Lapland fifhermen upon the lake of Pallajervi; and with
this.view we afcended the little river Pallajoki, which derives its
fource from it. This river is fo fhallow, of fo little width, and
twifted into fo many windings, that it is with great difficulty na-
vigated. Our embarraf{ments in afcending it multiplied as we
proceeded: we were under the neceflity, for the greater part of
the courfe, to carry our baggage upon our backs, in order to
lighten our boat. When we arrived at the lake there arofe fo
ftrong a wind, that our boat was in danger of finking before we
could make the little ifland of Kintafari. When we gained the
ifland, we difcovered three fifhermen, who had erected a kind of
hut with boughs of trees, plaftered over with mud, and had hung
up in it a quantity of fifh to dry. This little ifland might take
up about half an hour to walk round it. Near it was another
ifland, about a fourth part lefs; but this was fo inconfiderable as
to be without a name.
The lake was furrounded with little hills covered with rein-
deer mofs, interfperfed with woods of birch and fir. We were
every where prefented with the contrafted view defcribed before,
which acted fo forcibly upon our imagination, that we could not
but fancy ourfelves upon fome inchanted ifland. When we looked
round us, we difcovered nothing that refembled any country we
had hitherto feen, and we feemed to be tranfported into a new
world.
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