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122 TRAVELS
wandering till the approach of winter in thofe woods, or been
under the neceflity of returning to Kautokeino. At laft we {pied
the ftceple of the church of Enontekis, after travelling two days and.
a half, and a journey of near one hundred Englifh miles. We arrived
at Enontekis the day after the departure of two Englith travel-
lers, who had undertaken the fame journey as our’s; but one of
them being taken ill with a fever, they were obliged, after re-
maining for fome time at this place, to return. This gentleman
was a mafter of arts, and a fellow of Jefus college, Cambridge ;
a man of genius and lively parts, as well as learning: he had been
in Italy, and underftanding that an Italian was travelling to the
northward, and would perhaps return that way, he wrote down
in a kind of regifter, or book of record, kept by the worthy
clergyman, four lines from Ariofto, which were admirably well
adapted to my fituation, and painted to the life the fatigues of
my journey.
Sei giorni me n’ andai mattina e fera,
Per balze e per pendui orridi e ftrani,
Dove non via, dove camin non era,
Dove né fegno, né veftigia umana.*
Thefe two Englifh gentlemen had ftaid with the clergyman
for a week, and had been treated by the whole family with the
* Six tedious days, from morn to eve, I pafs’d
O’er many a pendent cliff and horrid watte ;
At length a wild and lonely vale I found,
With hills and dreadful caves encompafs’d round.
Hoo e’s Tranfl. of Ariofio.
utmoft
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