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48 TRAVELS
When one tumbled down, the whole line of march was ftopped; -
when the word /a/t was given, all the caravan threw itfelf on the
ground ; and it was not without much entreaty that we could
get the individuals of it to raife themfelves again on their legs.
We were nearly fix hours in going fix miles. At length we
reached the borders of a {mall lake called Kevijervi, on the right
of which a chain of mountains extends itfelf, and forms the
boundaries of Finmark, or Norwegian Lapland, and Swedifh
Lapland. On the border of this lake we found two boats which
were in a moft fhattered condition, full of leaks, with oars that
were {plit and of unequal lengths. Thefe boats were built by
the Laplanders, and left in the place mentioned, buried in {now
during the winter, and expofed to all weathers. Such were the
boats in which we were now to crofs this lake, about a mile
over, and the cnly conveyance that could poffibly be procured
for this purpofe. Two Laplanders rowed, and two more fcooped
out the water, which flowed in at feveral leaks as faft as they
could throw it out: and had they ceafed baling, the boats would
have filled in a fhort {pace of time, and we fhould all have gone
to the bottom. Yet, notwithftanding that we were all placed
in this perilous fituation, we obferved, not without great indig-
nation, that our Lapland rowers plied their oars, and pulled as
leifurely, and with as much phlegmatic calmnefs, as if there had
not been the leaft occafion for their exertion.
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