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282 OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
At four in the evening we fent down all our baggage, and at feven we embarked in
fix boats, eachweonducted by three men, to proceed to Avafaxa, on whofe fummit we
arrived at midnight. After having pitched our tents, and taken food and reft, on Satur-
day, the twenty-firft, we came down the mountain to go to Ofwer Torneo, or rather
Sarkilachti, to fee M. Brunius, paftor of Ofwer Torneo, and M.de Guilingrip, governor
of the province, who was at his houfe. We were very well received ; we dined there;
and he promifed to come the next day to dine with us. If we had to fuffer from the
flies and the heat, we had yet the confolation of perfect freedom as to our drefs; we
were in our jackets, with Finnifh fhoes, a kind of leathern focks; we drefled as we
pleafed, in fhort, and no one looked upon it as extraordinary. We received the governor
and all his retinue in the fame drefs. Our tents were too little; we could not fhelter
ourfelves from the fun under them ; we therefore made our foldiers build a dining-room
with trees and leaves, furnifhed with a table and benches ; we had there the remainder
of ovr wine, and there it was finifhed.
It is difficult to defcend the mountain. After having got down through a little wood,
we met with large and flippery rocks, lying very unevenly ; afterwards we entered into
a foreft which ftretched to the foot of the mountain, where we found the river Tengelio,
which on three fides runs round it, and afterwards empties itfelf into the great river Tor-
neo. In going up and down thefe mountains, notwith{tanding their dithculty, two of our
foldiers, marching with a fteady pace, carried on their fhoulders our two feet quadrant,
and fo by two and two our baggage and provifions : they never objected to the labour,
although it was inceflant. Notwithftanding their fatiguing work, thefe Fins ate very
little ; a few dry fifth, which they carried in a bag, made of the bark of the birch tree,
and which hung at their fide, with a cafk of foured milk, was all their food and be-
verage. ‘They fometimes have a little barley-cake, extremely dry, and as they empty
their cafk of four milk, they replenifh it with water.
The inhabitants of the neighbourhood came to our mountains in flocks : many of them
offered their boats and their fervices ; we gave two thalers per day to each man, which
is about twenty-four fols French money, very high wages for that country. ‘The ardour
which infpired them to ferve us engaged fome to buy their places of thofe who brought
us from Torneo; others brought us milk, fheep, or fifh. On the two firft mountains,
Nieva and Cuitaperi, we ate a quantity of frefh falmon: we bought one at Cuitaperi,
three feet ten inches long, for which we paid three livres, and the feller thought it a
great deal ; he would not have obtained for it more than forty fous from his country
people.
Pullingi was the only mountain on which we had a fignal towards the north, and
another was to be found to continue the triangles further. For this purpofe, I fet off
with M. Helant and fix foldiers, in two boats, on Sunday, the twenty-third, at eight in
the evening. We embarked on the river Tengelio ; we crofled the lake Portimo, and
continued yet on the river until three o’clock in the morning : we then left our boats
and went acrofs the marfhes and forefts to mount Horrila\ero ; we made the fignal larger,
to be the better perceived. From thence I examined the mountains which are perceived
beyond, but which appeared confounded, and piled one upon the other, Our foldiers told
me, that one which appeared the moft likely for our purpofe was called Lango, but was
very diftant; that they knew it, and could lead us to it. We were not fufficiently well
provided with food to go fo far intoa defart, where there were no habitations ; we there-
fore came back to Avalaxa, reaching it on Monday night.
We always landed while the boat was worked through the cataracts in the Tengelio:
the failors made ufe of a different method here to that ufed in the Torneo; inftead of
I rowing
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