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THROUGH LAPLAND. 107
We left this cabin to purfue our voyage ; but after proceeding
five or fix Englifh miles, we were obliged by the wind again to
land, when we determined to take advantage of this interval to
make an excurfion into the interior‘of the country, in order to try
if we could meet with any thing remarkable, and particularly,
whether we could not get a fight of fome wandering Laplanders
with their rein-deer and their tents. We travelled {even or cight
Englifh miles on foot, and found here and there, amidft thofe
mountains, delicious {pots and vallies, enclofed by hills that were
covered with birch and fome other trees. We enjoyed the fhade,
and the frethnefs of the brooks or rivulets that watered the vallies.
We at laft came to a mountain Laplander’s tent, and our curiofity
was fatisfied: this tent was of a conical form, and not fhaped as
tents are in general. They put together feveral pofts or beams
of wood, frefh cut down, fticking them with one end in the
ground, and making them meet at the top. Thefe beams they
covered all round with pieces of woollen cloth, which they faftened
to one another. The diameter of the tent we faw at the bafe
was eight Englifh feet. In the middle was the fire, and around
the fire fat the Laplander’s wife, a boy, who was his fon, and
sot fome inhofpitable and furly dogs, which never ceafed barking at
gs all the time we remained near them. Fatt by the tent was
-“ere@ted a thed, confifting of five or fix fticks or pofts, that were
faftened to one another near the top, in the fame manner as the
tent, and covered with fkins and pieces of cloth. Under this
canopy the Laplanders kept their povifions, which were cheefe
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