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THROUGH LAPLAND. 89
gions, we ftarted a white hare, and fome birds of different. forts:
but it was not without difficulty and trouble that we could fire a
fhot, on account of the infeéts. The pleafure of fhooting any
thing was dearly purchafed by the pain to be endured in perform-
ing that operation. In order to charge, level our pieces, and take
aim, it was neceflary to pull off our gloves, and put afide the veils
that covered our faces: but when all this was done, or while doing,
our enemies, ever watchful for a favourable moment of attack,
allured by the {cent of their prey, fell on the parts expofed with-
out mercy by millions.
We began to be exceedingly fatigued; but as there was no
fuel at hand for making fires to drive away the mufquetoes,
which did not* permit us either to take refrefhment or repofe, we
puthed on in queft of fome trees, and niade, by a roundabout
way, towards a cabin, which we were told by one of the oldeft of
our guides, had been erected in a plantation not far off by fome
travelling merchants, for the purpofe of refting and warming
themfelves in the winter feafon, while the Laplanders baited
their rein-deer. This cabin is a {quare room about eight or ten
feet in diameter, conftruéted of wood, with a hole in the top for
letting out the {moke of the fire in the centre. We did not all
go into the cabin at once; but after the Laplanders had collected
abundance of the withered branches of trees, one of them entered
alone and lighted the fire, having firft ufed the precaution of ftop-
ping up the hole in the roof in order to keep in the fmoke. When
the chamber was fo completely filled with fmoke as almoft to pre-
Vo. I. N yent
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