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316 | GENERAL REMARKS
or figure. There were feveral youths of more advantageous ap-
pearance whom the miffionary wifhed very much to have fent to
court in preference to Nicolas Korfnzs: but they were not to
be induced to quit Lapland by any argument or promife. There
was particularly one of the bay of Alten, of uncommon ftature as
well as comelinefs for a Laplander, whom the miffionary preffed
very much to go to the king, and his importunities and promife
of the royal protection and favour would, he fays, have fucceeded,
but for the intervention of the young man’s mother. This wo-
man, who was then ina {tate of pregnancy, came to the miffion-
ary and told him, that the curfe of God, as well as her’s, would
light on his head, if he fhould tear from her her dear and only
fon, and if any accident fhould happen to her, whofe time of de-
livery drew nigh, in confequence of the grief and forrow fhe muft
fuffer from that act of his. The miffionary after this defifted from
all farther perfuafion.
When the young Laplander arrived at Copenhagen, he was
treated with all poffible attention and kindnefs, being handfomely
dreffed, and well entertained; all which things Mr. Leems de-
{cribes minutely: but in the autumn he was taken ill, and lan-
guifhed till the end of the year, when he died. The miffionary
does not hefitate to afcribe his death to the fudden change of air
and manner of living, and quotes the maxim, that “ all fudden
‘‘ changes are dangerous.” The body of the youth was interred
in a very folemn and honourable manner, and the fine clothes in
which he had been attired by his majefty, were fent for fome {mall
confolation to his forrowful parents.
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