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shore. The Laplanders had a propensity to fire at 

 strangers, and one of them aimed at Linnaeus ; though 

 the bullet missed its mark, it struck close to the place 

 where he was standing. 



He was repaid for his labours and risks by many 

 curious sights. Eeindeer and lemmings came repeatedly 

 under his notice. Once he was able to study a fresh 

 beaver. His biographer, Stoever, says that Linnseus 

 discovered a hundred undescribed plants during the 

 journey. He attended to many things besides natural 

 history, observed the mode of life of the Lapps, their 

 tents and furniture, their huts mounted on poles, the 

 dress of the men and women, the threads of reindeer 

 sinew, the leather cradles lined with moss and hair, the 

 great herds of reindeer, the bread, made of flour mixed 

 with chaff, the inner bark of pine-trees, or the powdered 

 roots of buckbean, the difierent ways of making curds 

 and whey, sorrel-leaves and the dried leaves of Pin- 

 guicula being among the expedients employed, the 

 various sorts of cheese, the traps for grouse and 

 ptarmigan, the salmon-pots, bows and arrows, sledges, 

 snow-shoes and walking-poles, the calendars made of 

 splinters of wood, the entertainments of the Lapps, 

 their music and their marriages. 



The journey to Lapland was the first of a series of 

 Swedish explorations made by Linnaeus, either alone or 

 as the chief of a small scientific staff. In 1734 he made 

 a six weeks' tour in Dalecarlia, in 1741 he was sent to 

 report on the Baltic islands of Oland and Gothland ; in 

 1746 he visited West Gothland, and in 1749 Scania; 

 the last three tours were state-surveys of a simple kind. 



On returning from Dalecarlia Linnaeus made a short 

 stay in Falun, where he became acquainted with the 

 daughter of Morseus, the town physician. He proposed 



