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290 OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
fignal : T could not effect it by directions taken from tree to tree, for there were none
except what were very fmall; but I made a more certain mark by the means of a great
rock which was near the fignal.
We pafled the day of the Affumption of the Blefled Virgin, (whofe feaft is not
held in Sweden) very tranquilly. M. Brunius kept company with us almoft all the day :
we entertained ourfelvesin talking Latin with him. Juit as we were all in bed, at eleven
o’clock, M. Camus returned from Horrilakero, to go the next day to Kukuma, in order
to rebuild the fignal which the winds had blown down. He took fome reft; and
Thurfday morning, the fixteenth, we both fet off, with a fervant who fpoke Swedifh,
and nine foldiers, one of which alfo fpoke Swedifh. We embarked in three boats, of
which we left one at Hieta Niemi: two being fuflicient for us, a third would only have
embarraffed and detained us in pafling the cataracts.
M. Camus and myfelf were in the fame boat, in which we kept going down the cata-
rats. At that of Waojenna, a wave on the fide where I fat {pent itfelf over the boat
and almoft covered me with water. We were obliged to keep ourfelves in a pofture
almoft lying, in order that we might not hinder the pilot from feeing the rocks, which
he continually avoided by the means of the rudder, while two Fins rowed with all their
might: in fome places, however, they fuffer the boat to fall down the ftream guided
only by the pilot. ‘Ihe cataract Matka was quite as terrible as the firft: we were, as
it were, buried amidit the waves, but this was of fhort duration. We arrived at Kor-
pikyla at three in the afternoon : we {topped more than two hours at a farmer’s ; we
dined there, as well as our failors, who required a little reft.
We got to the top of Kukuma by ten o’clock : the heat and almoft continual rays of
the fun had fomewhat dried the marfhes, and we found the road pretty good. A rein-
deer belonging to the Lapland girls who lived at the foot of mount Nieva took a liking
to us, and followed us in fpite of his miftrefs, who could not prevent him : he {tayed
on mount Kukuma all the time we remained there. ‘The nights began to be cold, and
we paffed this near a great fire. At three o’clock in the morning of the feventeenth
we fet to work to re-eftablith the fignal ; we fet off at nine o’clock, and arrived by noon
at Korpikyla.
The rein-decr came back with us, and returned to his miftreffes, who had five or fix
others. We afcended the cataracts on foot ; the waters were very low in them, and
the navigating through them incommodious: we got into the boats again at Kainun-
kyla, and arrived at M. Brunius’s, where all were in bed except himfelf, who was re-
turning from fifhing at midnight.
Saturday, the eighteenth, was very fine, fcarce any gnats or fmall flies; there were
only a few flies remaining fimilar to thofe we meet with in France. Meflrs. de Mau-
pertuis, Clairaut, and Celfius, returned from Horrilakero at five im the afternoon, and
we were all met together. In the evening we perceived a fine aurora borealis.
On Sunday, the nineteenth, fome of our party going to church, where there was a
fermon, were aftonifhed to hear the fobbing of the audience, affected by the difcourfe
of M. Brunius. On their return from church, it was faid that the foreft of Horrilakero
was on fire; this turned out but too true: after dinner we faw from the top of Avafaxa
the {moke of the fire; it even prevented our obferving the angles of the extremities of
the bafe, or feeing Horrilakero. We were obliged to fend an exprefs there to know if
the fignal was not damaged ; as for the reft, thé weather continued fine, and the mghts
rather cold. Meflrs. de Wiaupertuis, Celfius, and myfelf, notwithftanding flept on the
mountain. Mefirs. Clairaut and Camus went to M. Brunius with M. Le Monnier, as
yet convalefcent: they found M. Herbelot there, who on taking a trip in a boat was
near
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