them good lodgings, and to provide every necessary for their 

 reception." The fifth, " as Zoologist, was to describe and depict 

 the quadrupeds and all the animals living as well in the water as 

 on the land, such as fishes, birds, worms, &c. His collateral 

 occupation consisted in shooting the game, which was necessary 

 for the support of the company, and in fishing and angling when- 

 ever it was deemed expedient." The sixth "companion was 

 commissioned to act as economist, to examine the dress of the 

 Laplanders, their dwellings, their way of preparing provisions, 

 their matrimonial and funeral rites, their knowledge of medicine, 

 mode of living, diet, Arc, and to describe with the pen or pencil 

 such objects as were most worthy his attention. His additional 

 employment was to communicate to his companions the disposi- 

 tions and regulations of the president, — in the same manner as 

 the adjutant of a regiment announces the orders of the general to 

 his corps, — and to call them together whenever it was required, 

 especially in the evening when an account was always given of 

 the transactions of the day ; he was also to take care that every 

 companion went to bed and rose again to continue the journey at 

 the time appointed." The seventh companion did the duty " of a 

 steward and treasurer ; he had the chief care of the fodder, cattle, 

 wood, buying and selling, and discharged the expenses of the 

 whole company." 



" Owing to these excellent regulations and their due observance, 

 the tour was continued and terminated with the greatest ease and 

 convenience. When the president discovered a village, it was 

 not necessary for all the company to ride thither, but the geo 

 grapher alone was sent to enter it. If some particular stone or 

 fossil was found on the way, the metallist was directed to alight ; 

 at the sight of some curious plant or insect, the botanist or 

 zoologist did his duty; they took the respective objects with 

 them, and prepared a description to be inserted at night in the 

 Transactions, besides the name of the jilace where they had been 

 found. The above regulations being thus uniformly observed. 



