28 A SPRING AND SUMMER IN LAPLAND. 



the traveller will have no difficulty in obtaining a 

 young student, who \vill willingly accompany him 

 for a trifle on such a trip. In collecting, let him 

 trust to the help of the natives in the district which 

 he visits ; they will be too glad to help him to 

 earn a little money. They know the country, and 

 the haunts and localities of the different birds and 

 beasts in their neighbourhood, and will do more 

 for him in a week than a strange servant, let lu'm be 

 ever so good, will in a month. But I did not know 

 at first that I could procure so much assistance, 

 and it was all important that I should have one man 

 upon whom I could trust, for I could not explain 

 to the Laps in what state of plumage I wanted 

 the different birds, and I knew my lad could be 

 depended upon, for he has been in my. service some 

 years. He certainly worked well, but every speci- 

 men he procured for me cost me four times as 

 much as those I bought of the natives. 



We travelled in two sledges. Our baggage 

 ivei^-hed about 8G01b., which I computed thus, and, 

 so that we should have no trouble on the road, I 

 weighed every package before we started : Dog, 

 351b.; shot and powder, lOOlb. (but this was barely 

 sufficient) ; trunk with clothes, books, etc., 801b. ; 

 double gun in case, etc., 251b.; double gun for my 

 lad, 141b.; spare single ditto, 71b. ; small carpet bag, 

 with money and things for road, 201b.; clothes for my 



