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but I thought it a pity to deprive the tender 

 brood of their mother, neilher would my 

 Gompassioh for the mother allow me long 

 to detam her offspring, which I restored to 

 her in safety. 



After havino; walked four or five miles 

 in the course of the night, I went to sleep 

 in the mornino; in one of the cottao;es of 

 the country. 



Julij 7. 



The inhabitants, sixteen in number, lay 

 there all naked. They Vv-ashed themselves 

 by rubbing the body downwards, not up- 

 wards. They washed their dishes with their 

 fingers, squirting water out of their mouths 

 upon the spoon, and then poured into them 

 boiled reindeer's milk, which was as thick 

 as common milk mixed with eggs, and had 

 a strong flavour. Some thousands of rein- 

 deer came home in the morning, which 

 were milked by the men as well as the wo- 

 men, who kneeled down on one knee. 



From the top of the head of some of these 



