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THROUGH LAPLAND. 57
when they went to eat, nor when they retired to reft, nor at rifing
in the morning.
Exactly at the hour of midnight, when the fun was elevated
about two diameters above the horizon, we had an inclination to
try the experiment, whether we could not light our pipes by
means of a burning-glafs. The attempt fucceeded completely.
At this phenomenon the Laplanders fhewed greater emotion and
wonder than they had yet done on any other_occafion. We had
a notion that they began to take us for forcerers; and under this
idea we put fome queftions to them on the fubject of forcery,
of which we had heard fo much in all the accounts of Lapland.
We afked them, whether they believed that there were any for-
cerers in their country? They faid, no: and that they did not
care whether there were any or not. To all our queries they
anfwered with an air of extreme indifference, and in a manner
that feemed to indicate that they were fick of our infipid conyer-
fation. We foon perceived that all our queftions made no other
impreffion on their minds than to awaken jealoufy, and to put
them more and more on their guard; and to convince them that
we were commiflaries fent among{t them by government. When
we enquired of them where their rein-deer were, and how many
they had, they replied, that they were very poor; they had for-
merly twenty-four, but that only feven remained, all the reft
having been devoured by the wolf. If we had not been aware
that the preceding year had been a dreadful one to the Laplan-
ders, by reafon of the immenfe quantities of wolves that poured
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