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50 TRAVELS
convinced that 1 owe to this plant the uninterrupted good health
which I enjoyed during all the time I was in thofe parts ; where
we had nothing elfe for our fubfiftence than dried or falted fith,
the dried flefh of the rein-deer, hard cheefe, bifcuit, and brandy ;
all of them heating and infalubrious aliments. The angelica was
the only thing that was frefh, and the only vegetable that we had
at our table. My companion, who had no relifh for this plant,
was often troubled with pains in his ftomach, and with indi-
geftion.
Though it was now drawing towards midnight, the torment
we fuffered from the mufquetoes, inftead of being abated was
increafed. The night was perfectly calm, and the infects at-
tracted by the effluvia of our Laplanders, purfued us in our
courfe, furrounded us, and involved us as ina cloud. After tra-
velling three miles over the rein-deer mofs, and through ftunted
fhrubs, we arrived greatly fatigued at the banks of the river Pe-
pojovaivi, where we found a fire with fome Lapland fifher-
men fitting by it, and two children about five or fix years of age.
We began to make preparations for paffing the night here, and
the Laplanders fet about cooking their fupper. The mufquetoes
this night annoyed us fo terribly, that it was not without the ut-
moft difficulty we were able to fwallow a morfel of victuals.
There was not fo much as a breath of wind: the column of
fmoke that iffued from the fire mounted ftraight upward in the
atmofphere, fo that we were deprived of the benefit of fumiga-
tion, and of taking what food we had, under the protection of a
cloud
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