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THROUGH LAPLAND. 65
traverfe, and tracks to chufe, and during the whole of the routs
was under a conftant neceffity of obferving, comparing, and de-
ciding ; three operations of the mind with which the Laplanders
were but little acquainted. In the courfe of his running along the
banks of the river, through fhrubs and brufhwood, he ftarted fome
game, which, in thofe parts, during the fummer feafon, is very
plentiful. We fhot fome ducks of a fpecies peculiar to thofe re-
gions, the azas nigra of Linnzus, fome geefe (aias albifranus, Lin.)
and a great number of groufe, which are here very common, and
which, rifing all of a fudden very near the boats, prefent an excel-
lent mark to the fport{man.
The river of Pepojoyaivi does not pafs clofe to the village of
Kautokeino, but at the diftance of about a mile. That mile we
were obliged to walk on foot, and to have our luggage carried by
land. In walking over this {pace, I fell in with fome birds, parti-
cularly the curlew (/colopax arquata, Lin.) which, to my aftcnifh-
ment, I found in this country very fearlefs and familiar, although
in other parts, and even at Uleaborg, it is not to be approached
without the greateft difficulty. I killed two of thefe birds with-
out turning afide from my path: I brought down alfo fome
plover.
When we arrived at Kautokeino, which was about an hour after
midnight, we were furprifed to find the whole village in a ftate of
alarm. All the women were at the doors of their houfes in their
fhifts, and the men in the ftreets or rather lanes. Their terror
was occafioned by the reports of our fowling pieces; and it was
Vor. TE K not
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