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scribed to me as about forty miles distant. 

 What I endured in the course of this jour- 

 ney is hardly to be described. How many 

 weary steps was I obhged to set to chmb 

 the precipices that came in my way, and 

 how excessive were my perspiration and 

 fatigue ! Nor were these the worst evils 

 we had to encounter before we reached 

 Caituma. Sometimes we were enveloped 

 with clouds, so that we could not see be- 

 fore us ; sometimes rivers impeded our 

 progress, and obliged us either to choose 

 a very circuitous path, or to wade naked 

 through the cold snow water. This fresh 

 snow water however proved a most wel- 

 come and salutary refreshment, for without 

 it we should never have been able to en- 

 counter the excessive heat of the weather. 

 Water was our only drink during this jour- 

 ney, but it never proved so refreshing as 

 when we sucked it out of the melting snow. 

 Having nearly reached the Lapland village 

 of Caituma, the inhabitants of which 



