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THROUGH LAPLAND. 115
higheft marks of diftinction : he offered us different kinds of liquor;
he made us a prefent of fome fponges, which are found in thofe
parts, together with fome fea-fhells; among the latter was a cancer
Bernhardus eremita, ina buccinum glaciale: he gave us alfo a {peci-
men of an alca alce, Shich his fon had ftuffed; he fhewed us the
environs of his habitation; thefe confifted fimply of rocks and fome
caverns, where they hunted the otter: and at our departure, he
hoifted the Danifh flag, and faluted us with three difcharges of
his cannon. All thefe exceflive marks of refpect and veneration
were not, perhaps, the effe¢t of mere hofpitality, but more pro-
bably of the delufive fancy that we were two princes travelling in
difguife. This delufion was founded in a circumftance that had
previoufly happened. A fon of the late duke of Orleans, after tra-
velling through Norway, came from thence to this coaft in a fhip.
From the ifle he proceeded to Alten, from Alten he traverfed on
horfeback nearly the fame ground that we had done, in company
with a young man of the name of Montjoye: Both travelled
under borrowed names: the firft under that of Miiller, the fecond
under that of Froberg, which is of the fame import in the Ger-
man as his own name in French. The year after thefe gen-
tlemen had been here, the merchants on the coaft were informed
by their correfpondents that one of them was the Prince of Or-
leans: and from that time they believed in Norway, as well as on
the coaft of Lapland, that every ftranger, accompanied by another,
and one or two fervants, was fome. prince on his travels, either for
inftruction or amufement. In order to form a juft eftimate of
Q2 the
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