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294 OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH.
that inftead of fifteen, there were eighteen or nineteen. There was a long difpute
among thefe Fins; they would all go, and feized on the different packages to load their
boats with ; but the lanfeman had fent a lift of fifteen which he had engaged, and in
thefe we all fet off on Monday, the third, a little after noon. ‘We only left two fervants
at M. Piping’s at Torneo, with M. Herbelot, who was juft returned from Pello. Along
the cataracts we walked, and again faw birds taking fifh. It rained a little, and as it
increafed after pafling the cataract of Kuckula, we landed on the ifand Toiwolan, other-
wife Kukulan; there were fome houfes there, wherein we fpent the night.
Tuefday, the fourth, about fix in the morning, we departed, and arrived with our
little fleet at Corpikyla at ten o’clock. After dining here all together, while the reft of
the party continued their road to Pello, M. de Maupertuis, M. Celfius, and myfelf, fet
out towards Kukuma; the rein-deer which followed us on the nineteenth of Auguft
refolved again to be of the party, and would not leave us. At two o’clock in the aiter-
noon one of our failors or foldiers percéived we were gone wrong, and ore of them
returned to Corpikyla to obtain a guide. We were then obliged to wait for him in a
heavy rain; and after our guide had arrived we were able to proceed but very flowly,
our Fins being very heavily laden.
We arrived on the top of Kukuma a little after eight o’clock; it was already very”
dark, and the rain came on heavier; the whole fummit of the mountain was nothing
but rock or water: neverthelefs we pitched a tent in a {pot as damp as it was hard, and
Peter, who was with us, pitched the other near the fignal, to put the quadrant under
fhelter. Our Fins, well fkilled in making fires, kindled one in fpite of the badnefs of
the weather; we endeavoured to warm and dry ourfelves, but the cold rain, which fell
in torrents, rendered our attempts ufelefs. M. de Maupertuis, tired of being cold, and
getting wet by the fire, retired towards the tent: the night was very dark, it was one
of thofe not lightened by the aurora borealis. _M. de Maupertuis walking on the points
of the rocks, on which by day it is difficult to walk, put his lez between two rocks and fell. »
Peter and myfelf ran to him on hearing the noife, and found him in fuch a fituation as
to give us apprehenfion he had broke his thigh : we helped him into the tent, and we
cut twigs of birch to ferve as a mattrafs for him. I fupped by the fire with M. Celfius ;
we went to lay down in the tent befide M. de Maupertuis, and pafled the night coolly
enough.
It rained again on Wednefday, the fifth, all the morning, with a fog: in the after-
noon we endeavoured to take our angle, but could not fatisty ourfelves; we were how-
ever comforted by learning that M. de Maupertuis found himfelf better, and that he had
nothing to fear from his accident. It rained very much through all the night again :
our poor Fins bore with all the conftancy imaginable the brunt of the weather, without
any fhelter ; they appeared as infenfible to its roughnefs as our rein-deer.
‘Thurfday, the fixth, by tenin the morning, it ceafed to rain; we made our obferva-
tion very well, dined, and left the mountain at three in the afternoon, to go by very
bad roads, and often through water, to fleep at Corpikyla. M. de Maupertuis walked
very well, and felt fearcely any pain: our rein-deer came back with us, and rejoined the
others feeding by the hut of the Laplanders. )
Friday morning, the feventh, one of the Lapland women, very infirm, came, drawn
by a rein-deer, to M. de Maupertuis, to bring him a bafket which fhe had made, and
which fhe fold to him. At fix o’clock we fet off in five boats; we afcended all the
cataracts on foot as far as Cainunkila. While waiting there for our boats we faw them ~
threfh their barley : they put it firft in a room to dry, in the corner of which isa kind
of {love : it is a large {quare block of ftone, rather longer than wide, through the middle
of
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