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their power to reach me without a rope, 

 which they luckily were able to procure to 

 drag me out of the hole. I had received 

 a blow on my thigh in the fall, the effects 

 of which I felt for a month afterwards. 

 One of my guides had met with a similar 

 accident but a week before. 



At length we arrived at Quickjock, after 

 having been four wrecks without tasting 

 bread. Those who have not experienced 

 the want of this essential support of life, 

 can scarcely imagine how hard it is to be 

 deprived of it so long, even with a super- 

 fluity of all other kinds of food. I re- 

 mained four days at Quickjock to recruit 

 my strength, and afterwards descended 

 the river ao-ain to Lulea. There beino; no 

 boat to be had north of Purkijaur, we were 

 obliged to construct a raft for ourselves. 

 Our voyage was very perilous, for the wind 

 and current both combined to overset us, 

 so that it was not without the greatest exer- 

 tion we saved ourselves, and it being night, 

 nobody heard our cries for assistance. 



