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THROUGH LAPLAND. 3
the rein-deer and a little meal: the whole formed a curious kind
of mefs. While the pot was ftill on the fire, all the Laplanders
fat around it, each with a fpoon in his hand, for the purpofe of
tafting when the foup was ready: when fufficiently boiled, they
began to partake of the mefs out of the fame pot altogether. When
any one had taken as much as fatisfied him, he fell afleep, and:
when he awoke he immediately began to eat again while others
flept ; then thefe-would awake, and again eat, while the former
elapfed into his flumber ; and thus they alternately eat and flept
till they were fatisfied with the one, and incapable of taking more
of the other. ‘There did not appear to be any kind of rule or
order among thofe people ; no beginning of any thing, and no
end. ‘Their only regulator and guide feemed to be appetite and
inftinct.
When they were not occupied with either eating or fleeping,.
they {moked tobacco. With one or two who preferred {moking
to fleeping we had an opportunity of holding fome converfation,.
in the courfe of which they afked us fome queftions. They en-
quired if any one of us was the king, or a fon of the king, or a
commiflary of the king? They defired to know, why we came
into their country? and what we were going to do there? I dif
covered that thefe people entertained fufpicions that we were
emiflaries from government, fent to {py their fituation and con-
dition, their wealth, and their conduét. From a great deal of
Jargon in a language, but little of which was intelligible even to.
our interpreter, we found out their objeét was to convince us of
their
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