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THROUGH LAPLAND. 109
compel them to enter. We had then time to view them at our
leifure. Thofe poor animals were lean, and of a fad and melan-
choly appearance: their hair hung down, and their exceffive
panting indicated how much they fuffered at this feafon of heat
and affliction: their {kins were pierced here and there, and ul-
cerated by the mufquetoes, and the eggs of the fly called, in Lap-
ponefe, kerma, (a/firus tarandi, Linn.) which tormented them in
the moft cruel manner. I made a colleétion of thofe infects and
their eggs, intending them as prefents for my entomological friends.
As to the milk which we tafted, it is not fo good at this time as
in winter. In fummer it has alwaysa kind of ftrong or wild
tafte, and too much of what the French call an haut gout.
Our guides advifed us to return to the boats, and avail ourfelves
of the favourable breeze that had fprung up for purfuing our
voyage; and we took leave of our Laplanders, whofe only regret
at our departure feemed to be a mortification at the removal of
the brandy. We paffed in our boat the Whaal-Sund, or Sound
of Whales, which was agitated at the fame time by the current
that fets in here very ftrong, and by the wind, which blew con-
trary to the current. Whales refort to this {trait in great num-
bers, and are, as we were told, very common in all thefe feas.
Although we were affured by our mariners, that they had never
paffed this ftrait without feeing eight or ten whales, we were fo
unfortunate as not to get a fight of one. We went on fhore to
the houfe of a merchant, fituated on an ifland near Havefund:
this was perhaps the moft difmal habitation on the face of the
earth.
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