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go TRAVELS
vent refpiration, the reft of the company were permitted to go
into it. The infects, with which we were covered from. head to
foot, were obliged to quit their prey and remain at the door, en-
raged that they durft not advance to attack us in our retreat.
This little hole in which we were all huddled one among another,
quite full of fmoke, and with no other carpet or floor than the
bare earth, was more agreeable to us than any of the inns I had
ever vifited in France or England. In the middle of the room
there was a good fire, and our tent placed on leaves of the birch-
tree ferved us for a bed. We now fet about dreffing the game we
had killed, being ourfelves the cooks. We had a comfortable
fupper; and while the thick and pungent fmoke made the tears
trickle down our cheeks in large drops, we merrily drank, im a
bumper of brandy, to the deftruction of our enemies, who kept us
in a ftate of blockade, {till hovering at the gate of our citadel, and
furious with refentment at the trick we had played them. The
hole for letting out the fmoke being opened for a fhort time, fome
of the infects had the courage to come in, but foon paid the forfeit
of their temerity: but in return, if any of our garrifon made a fally
to fetch wood or water, or any other neceflary, the whole flying
army took ample vengeance by attacking and almoft devouring
him alive. Having finifhed our cookery and our fupper, we laid
ourfelves down quite clofe to one another, the Laplanders literally
upon each other, like entwined ferpents in winter; the whole
company lying around our great preferver and protetor, the cen-
tral fire.
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