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in TRAVELS
an uninhabited country, he was in no danger of harm from any
’ living creature, except the bear, which in the fummer is far from
being ferocious. He might, indeed, have fallen down a precipice,
or loft his way in the woods, and fo have been unable to recover
the boat. The fifhermen were preparing to fet out in fearch of
him, and we began to defpair of being able to proceed any farther,
when, to the great fatisfaction of all of us, he made his appear-
ance. He related to us, that having been difappointed in meet-
ing with Laplanders on the neareft mountains, he was unwilling
to go back without effecting the object of his miffion, and went
onwards, until at length he fell in with two families, whom he
conducted with him to the banks of a rivulet called Reftijoki,
where he had left them waiting until we joined them.
This intelligence was the fignal for our departure from the
ifland. Our tent was taken down and packed up, and bidding
adieu to our fifhermen we fet forward.
We foon reached the mouth of the rivulet, on the banks of
which the rendezvous was appointed. We afcended it through
all its windings, and were impatient to join the Laplanders, left
they fhould think us long in coming, and grow tired of waiting
for us, for we had conceived no high opinion either of their pa-
tience or their complaifance. At length we arrived where they
were. The party was compofed of fix men and a young girl.
We found them feated under a birch-tree, on the branches of
which they had hung up the provifions for the journey, which
confifted of dry fifth. They lay along the ground in different pof-
tures,
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