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THROUGH LAPLAND. 61
following the courfe of the Pepojovaivi, they made up againft the
current of a fmall and fmooth river, which falls into the former.
They would give no farther account of this change in their move-
ment, than by faying that they were doing what was right, and
‘that they would condué us in good time to Kautokeino accord-
ing to our defire. As we had not any tolerable maps of this part
of Lapland, and were totally unacquainted with the rivers or
lakes that we might have to pafs, we could not make any vigo-
rous oppofition to what our guides intended, and therefore judged
it expedient to take no notice of what they did for fome time, but
wait and fee the refult of this new circumftance. It was not long
before we difcovered that their obje& was to draw the nets and
carry off all the fifh they could find. Thefe nets were torn in fo
many places, that the fifhes might make their efcape with little
difficulty ; but the quantity of them was fo great, that fome were
found in every part of the net that was entire. Fhe manner of
fifhing in Lapland is this: they have their nets {pread, and always
ftanding in the water; they repair to them and draw them in
whenever they want fifth, which they dry in the air, and by the
heat of the fun. Nature has done every thing for thofe people ;
and in proportion to her profufe bounty is their abominable indo-
lence. ‘The fifhermen of the ifle of Kintafari were very different
in their habits and difpofitions from thofe of Pepojoyaivi. All
their apparatus for fifhing was in the moft excellent order: their
boats were found, their nets whole and faultlefs, and they drew
them when they caft them. But the Kintafari fifhers were not
erratic
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