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THROUGH LAPLAND. 95
three of his fifh into flices, and treated our whole caravan with a
difh of his falmon, prepared in the manner of foup and bouillie,
feafoned with fome herbs and falt, and a handful of oatmeal, which
he took out of a bag that feemed to form not the leaft important
article of his wealth. Having neither plate, fork, nor {poon, we
were obliged to fupply the place of thefe with pieces of the bark
of the birch-tree, and we made an excellent dinner.
This falmon-fifher’s boat was of great ufe in tranfporting us
over a river that obftructed our way to Alten, where we were de-
firous of arriving as quickly as poffible, in order to put an end to
a fatiguing journey of nearly forty miles through the mountains.
We were landed from the boat in a wood, the paths or tra¢ts of
which gave us to underftand that we had now come toa country
inhabited by men. We enquired every inftant of our guides who
went before us, where was Alten-Gaard? how many miles we
had travelled, and how many we had yet togo? Every moment
we expected to be “at our journey’s end, and our knees began to
tremble, unable any longer to fupport us, as we purfued our wind-
ing road through this foreft; when, to our extreme mortification
as well as furprife, we difcovered that the labyrinthical tra we
followed had mifled us; and after an hour’s walking we perceived
that we were exactly at the fame fpot where we had landed from
the fifherman’s boat.* Amiudft this defolation, we could not help
* Nel bofco Ferrau molto fi avvolfe
E ritrovoffi alfin onde fi tolfe. ARIOSToO.
«’ Long through the devious wilds the Spaniard paft,
«* And to the river’s banks returned at laft:
‘«¢ The place again the wandering warrior view’d, -
“* Where late he dropt his cafque amid the flood.
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