34- MEMOIR OF LINNJEU3. 



side with hooks and eyes, so that it could be opened 

 and shut at pleasure. This bag contained one shirt, 

 two pair of false sleeves, two half shirts, an inkstand, 

 pencase, microscope, and spying-glass ; a gauze cap 

 to protect me occasionally from the gnats, a comb ; my 

 journal, and a parcel of paper stitched together for draw- 

 ing plants, both in folio ; my manuscript ornithology, 

 Flora Uplandica, and Characteres Generici. I wore 

 a hanger at my side, and carried a small fowlingpiece, 

 as well as an octangular stick, graduated for the pur- 

 pose of measuring. My pocketbook contained a pass- 

 port from the governor of Upsala, and a recommendation 

 from the Academy." During the rest of this excursion, 

 he made use of the mode of travelling which was best 

 suited to the roads and passes, and performed the 

 greater part of it on foot. Many hardships were neces- 

 sarily undergone from the climate and nature of the 

 country. His life was often periled in crossing rapid 

 rivers, upon the rude boats or rafts constructed by the 

 inhabitants, and endangered in a dreary waste of 

 almost boundless snow, where the tracts of the rein- 

 deer, and the degree of heat retained by their dung, 

 were the only guides to the huts of their masters ; and 

 he was even once fired on by a native on the coast of 

 Finmarck. Notwithstanding these difficulties, he has 

 eulogized the country in the Flora Lapponica, as all 

 that could be desired, happy and smiling, free from 

 many diseases and the scourge of war, and possessing 

 plentiful resources in itself; while the inhabitants are 

 said to be innocent and primitive, displaying the great- 



