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RFEGNARD’S JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 1ST
turns, as has been already mentioned, upon the hunter, and embracing him with his fore-
paws, ftifles him. We were told by the governor of a Pruflian province, that one of his
relations a fhort time before had at the bear-chace his arm broken and his neck twifted,
which were the caufes of his death. The peafants chace m a different manner ; they
know the haunts of the animal, and go to attack him with a knife in their hands: when
the bear approaches, they pufh into his throat their left hand wrapped up in linen, and
with the right ftab him in the belly. Another mode is lefs dangerous: the bear is very
fond of the honey which bees make in the trunks of trees; he afcends, drawn by the
odour of his prey, to the fummits of the higheft trees: the peafants put diftilled {pirits
into the honey, and the bear finding the tafte agreeable, takes fo much that the itrength
of the fpirit intoxicates him and makes him fall; the peafant then finds him without
ftrength, in a recumbent pofture, and eafily becomes mafter of him.
The Elector of Brandenburg is called ~—-——-: he has a fon, fifteen years of age,
who is denominated Kurt-Prince : he profefles the Calviniftic religion. Amber is found
upon his lands in Ducal Pruffia ; for Royal Pruflia belongs to the King of Poland. It
produces to him more than twenty-five thoufand crowns a month: he farms out the
amber-fifhery at from fixty to eighty thoufand crowns ; and there is a horfe-guard for
the purpofe of watching the fhore. When the wind is high it is found in greateft abun-
dance. Before it comes out of the fea it is foft, and will take the impreilion of a feal.
There are feveral pieces on which flies are found. This fifhery extends from Dantzic
to Memel.
The elk is an animal higher than a horfe, and of a whitifh colour: it has a branch
like the deer, and a foot of the fame fhape, very long ; its under-lip hangs down, and
it hasa bunch upon the neck like a camel. It defends itfelf, againft the dogs who pur-
fue it, with its fore-feet, with which it ftrikes them very forcibly.
The fon of the Elector of Brandenburg married a year ago the daughter of Prince
Bogeflas de Ratzevie, Duke of Stuck, and of Kopil de Bitze, and of Dubniki, of the
illuftrious family of the Ratzevils, defcended from the ancient Princes of Lithuania,
and for more than three centuries primces of the empire. He was the fon of Prince
Jannalius, of the black branche, whofe evil deftiny led him to declare himfelf chief of
that party which oppofed the King, but which was foon after taken into favour, and of
Elifabeth Sophia, daughter of John George, Elector of Brandenburg, afterwards married
to Julius Henry, Duke of Saxe-Lawembourg : he was governor of Ducal Pruffia.
This young princefs was wholly educated at the court of Brandenburg. ‘The ——
paid his addrefles to her, and {pent a large fum of money on her account; but the
Elector would not fuffer more than eight hundred thoufand livres of rent to be fent out
of the country. ‘The Poles conftantly complain of his conduét, as there is a treaty
which ftipulates that this princefs fhould marry no other than a native of Poland. He
who paid his addreffes to her loft his reafon in confequence of vexation.
The father of the Grand Duke of Mufcovy was called Frederic Alexander, and the
prefent Duke, Alexander Michael, or Michael Federowitz, Michel fon of Peter.
The Prince of Tranfylvania is called Apaty, pays eighty thoufand crowns of tribute
to the Tnrk, and loves nothing but drinking. Reliqui governs the ftate, and Telechi
is general of the rebels. The capital of Tranfylvania is Cujuar, or Albejule.
M. Acakias has been refident at the court of this Prince for the purpofe of treating
with the faction of the rebels.
REFLECTIONS.
Ir is ufual with travellers when they make a voyage to conjure up ftorms, and all the
weather they meet with, which is not perfectly calm, is, according to them, a continu@l
tem peft,
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