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AdA ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
During the whole time I was among the Laplanders it always was a duty with me,
from the feftival of the new year, to that time which is between Eafter and Whitfuntide,
to traverfe the mountains in the difcharge of the duty of a preacher, firft among the
mountain Laplanders of Porfanger bay, then among thofe who inhabit Laxfiord bay.
When I performed this troublefome journey, and was preparing to defcend again to the
bay of Laxfiord, to initiate the maritime Laplanders of this place alfo, it happend, that
the Laplander J firft came to (his name was Oluff Erichfen Karfnes,) prefented me
with a fmall portion of cow’s milk, which was frefh, from which I had a mind to
make a ptifan, to be divided into two equal parts, one for myfelf, the other for the
hoft. How great my defire was for it may be inferred from my not either feeing or
tafting a drop of new milk for the whole of the winter. But fince in this as in other
huts, the fheep occupied a {mall place for themfelves, and that fheepfold was next to
me, it fo happened, that the fheep, allured by the fmell of the frefh milk, jumped through
the door, which the Laplander’s wife had opened, and overturned my bowl of drink,
The hoft, who had the half of it, had that politenefs that he wifhed to repair my lofs by
kindly giving me part of his own, which I refufed with equal politenefs, knowing that -
ptifan was as grateful to him as new milk was to me.
When going a journey over the mountains, among other veffels for travelling, I
carried with me a liquor cafe filled with brandy, with this intent, that, when feized
wit cold, I fhould have the means of reftoration. But neither did this fucceed to my
wifhes. For, when walking out in the wood, not far from the cot, the wife of the Lap-
lander where I refided went out to fetch fome calf-{kins from the ftorehoufe near the
cot. It fo happened, that, whilft fhe was taking down the fkins, the liquor cafe, which
lay upon them, fell to the ground and was broke in pieces ; the brandy alfo all flowed
out on the fnow. The matter of the cot, by name Juks Anodften, on fcenting the
brandy, eagerly fled to it, and, fucking up the very fnow which had abforbed the liquor,
drank till he was even drunk. On my return from the wood, I found him in a ftate
of inebriation, which excited in me the greater wonder, as I knew the great penury or
fearcity of brandy or any ftrong drink that was in this defert. I felt uneafy too, as the
king’s mandate had forbidden, under fevere penalties, the giving a drop of ftrong in-
toxicating liquor to any Laplander whatever. The Laplander then ingenuoufly con-
feffed the fact to me on my coming home, in the following words : Odne ednak vahag la
Jhiaddam ; that is, a great misfortune has happened this day! At which I was much
moved, fearing left fome ill had befallen his family ; but, informed of the misfortune,
the weight of which he had fo aggravated with words, I collected myfelf, having
little regard for the liquor cafe, which I never had before nor afterwards on my jour-
ney. ‘Lhe whole time I was among the Laplanders I drank nothing but cold water,
which was more grateful and delicious to me than any wine or any other liquor what- -
ever. And whenever among the clergy, or men of better condition in life, where beer
was drunk, I foynd the thirit was rather excited than quenched by it, certainly that it
could not be allayed without water from the fpring. But now for my holt, who, as he
was a man in good circumftances, fo was he alfo a man of,courtefy, and made me a full
reftitution of almoft the whole I had loft.
A certain merchant of Bergen, by name Daniel Ravnfberg, of the fociety who pur-
chafed the Finmark trade from the king, came into Finmark while I was difcharging
the duties of my million there, in order to attend to fome bufinefs he had the difpatch
of. I travelled with him from Porfanger bay, where he had fome little delay. On the
voyage the feamen killed an otter, and made for fhore as ufual to drefs it. When
drefled, and eat up greedily in our prefence, Ravnfberg afked a tafte of the boiled part,
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