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118 TRAVELS
him fome news more recent than any that he had heard. One
may form an idea of the little communication there is between
thofe parts and the reft of Europe from the following circum-
ftance: it was the 19th of July, 1799, and the minifter of Hem-
merfeft had received no intelligence concerning the great affairs
of nations fince the victory obtained by the Englifth fleet at Abou-
kir, in Auguft 1798.
We did not receive the fame honours as at Maafo, becaufe,
perhaps, the merchants at Hammerfeft had neither cannon nor
ammunition, Such 1s the weaknefs and foolifh vanity of human
nature, that.on our departure from this place, we were fenfible of
fome difappointment in not hearing any report of cannon. We
fhould not have been difpleafed if the fame mark of refpect, or
rather folly, had been fhewn us.
At Alten we found ready to meet us a man whom I had employed
to collect plants and infects, and another who had come to enter-
tain us with his fiddle, and to give us a fpecimen of the mufic of
this part of Europe. See Appendix. At this village we remained
feveral days for the purpofe of making the neceffary preparations
for our return to the gulf of Bothnia. During this interval of
repofe, we made a fhort excurfion to Telwig, in order to fee the
Laplanders who came thither from all quarters to fell their fith.
It is a fmall port or creek of the fea, three miles from Alten,
where there is a village inhabited by fome merchants and a cler-
gyman: it poffleffes a church.
I fhall not fatigue my reader with a detail of all the minute cir-
8 cumftances
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