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94 TRAVELS
feeing again the river of Alten rolling its pellucid ftream through
rich meadows, and with a velocity which recalled to our minds
our paffage from Kautokeino to Koinosjoki. Betwixt Kautokeino
to the charming diftri@t where we had now arrived, a {pace of one
hundred and twenty Englifh miles, we did not meet with a hu-
man creature, excepting the two Laplanders of Kautokeino, who
left their nets and followed us, as before-mentioned.
At the place where we now were, we at length fell in with a
falmon-fither, who had come thither with his wife. It is fo un-
ufual and unheard-of a thing to meet with any human being in
thofe fequeftered regions, that when the woman heard the noife
we made in the woods, fhe was affrighted, and wanted to per-
fuade her hufband to betake himfelf with her to flight, for fear of
fome wild beaft, or unknown monfter, coming to devour them.
When we came up fhe had not recovered herfelf; however fhe
had become more compofed as fhe had a nearer view of us while
we approached. | She was young, and the changes of colour in her
countenance occafioned by fear rendered her the more interefting.
Perhaps it was the effect of our prefent folitude, and owing to the
circumftance that we had not enjoyed the pleafure of feeing the
fair fex for a long time, but I thought that this woman was not
unworthy of a place in the number of beauties. She had black
eyes, regular features, and chefnut hair. Whatever was the caufe
I know not, but I could not help fixing my eyes on her more than
on any other of the furrounding objects. The fifher had a ftore
of excellent falmon, and alfo a pot for boiling it. He cut two or
three
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