142 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



that I escaped with hfe, though certainly 

 not without excessive fatigue and loss of 

 strength. 



After having thus for a long time gone 

 in pursuit of my new Lapland guide, we 

 reposed ourselves about six o'clock in the 

 morning, wrung the water out of our 

 clothes, and dried our weary limbs, while 

 the cold north wind parched us as much 

 on one side as the fire scorched us on the 

 other, and the gnats kept inflicting their 

 stings. I had now my fill of travelling. 



The whole landed property of the Lap- 

 lander who owns this tract consists chiefly 

 of marshes, here called stygx. A divine 

 could never describe a place of future pu- 

 nishment more horrible than this country, 

 nor could the Styx of the poets exceed it. 

 I may therefore boast of having visited the 

 Stygian territories. 



We now directed our steps towards the 

 desert of Lapmark, not knowing where we 

 went. 



A man who lived nearest to the forlorn 



