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3tA GENERAL REMARKS
SECTION «XXXVI:
Of the ftrong Attachment of the Laplanders to their native
Country.
HE miffionary Leems, on a review of the {tate and condition
of the Laplanders, acknowledges, that their fituation is in-
expreffibly hard and full of trouble: yet he obferves that being
enured to this kind of life from their early years, their attachment
to their native country is greater than that of nations who live in
the enjoyment of every convenience and comfort; in proof of
which, he gives an account of a commiffion which he received in
a perfonal interview from his Danifh Majetty, Chriftian VI. to
fend a young Laplander to his court at Copenhagen, and the ex-
treme difficulty he found in executing it. This interview being
fo important a paflage in the miffionary’s own life, he relates it
with great circumftantiality. It was an interefting period ; for
the time of his being prefented to his majefty very nearly coincided
with that of his taking unto himfelf a wife.
In the beginning of July 1733, he had gone to Aalfund in the
province of Sund-Moeria Aletha-Rubergia : it was juft three weeks
after his marriage, when he was prefented to the king by Admiral
Rofenpalm. His majefty, who had received a very favourable
account
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