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46 TRAVELS
gage, a circumftance which would leave us in a very unpleafant
fituation. We left it to them to divide our baggage into feven
parcels, one for each, including the girl, who was to be made to
carry her proportion. We remarked a degree of equity in the
diftribution of the burthens, which impreffed us with no unfavour-
able idea of the character of thefe people. We obferved that they
gave the lighteft packets to fuch as appeared unequal to a heavier
load. To excite in them an attention to juftice, and to each
other, we gave each of them a glafs of brandy when they fet about
making the divifion, promifing them another when it was made.
On beginning their march they afked for a third, and though we
feared this third glafs would intoxicate them, yet we durft not
difpleafe them by a refufal. In order to induce us the more rea-
dily to comply with their requeft as to a third glafs, they quoted
a Lapland proverb as their authority for it, which fays, “ Before
“‘a journey take a glafs for the body’s fake; at fetting off take
‘another for courage fake.” At length we began our march,
each of our Laplanders with his load of baggage, one of them
taking the lead, and the reft following one by one in fingle file.
This was the firft time during our whole journey that we had
travelled in this manner, and we were wonderfully delighted with
the fingular appearance which our caravan made. We kept ih
the rear of the line of march, in order that we might fee that no
part of our baggage was dropt or loft, and moreover to obferve the
conduct of thofe that went before. The pleafure we had in re-
viewing this proceffion was deftroyed by the intolerable {tench
which thefe filthy Laplanders left behind them, when they began
to
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