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oblijred to undertake a walk of a few miles 

 further, which I was told would bring us to 

 a more navioable stream. After walkinjr 

 for some time, a fen or marsh lay before us, 

 seemingly half a mile broad, which we had 

 to cross. At every step the water wa^ 

 above our knees, and the ice was at the 

 bottom. Where the frost was quite gone, 

 we often sunk still deeper. When we had 

 traversed this marsh, we soujrht in vain 

 for any human creature, and were therefore 

 under the necessity, a little further on, of 

 crossing another bog, still worse than the 

 former, and a mile in extent. I know not 

 what I would not rather have undertaken 

 than to pass this place, especially as the 

 elements were all adverse, for it blowed 

 and rained violently. 



Jime 3. 



By four o'clock this morning, having 

 conquered all our difficulties, we still could 

 not meet M'ith any Laplander. I was so 

 fatigued that I could proceed no further 



