34 JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 



turn by a different way, through the mountains, and exhausted with 

 hardships, fatigue and hunger, reached Liilea on the eleventh of Au- 

 gust. . : 



" All my food in those fatiguing excursions, which cannot be eased 



by voluntary repose or riding," says Linnaeus in the account which he 

 gave of his travels in the year 1771, to his worthy friend and pupil, 

 Doftor and Professor G i e s k e at Hamburgh, " consisted for the most part 

 " of fish and rein-deer's milk ; bread, salt, and what \s to be found every 



where else, did but seldom recreate my palate. One of the greatest 

 " nuisances which I met with in Lapland, was the immense number of 

 " flies. I used to keep them off by drawing a crape over ray face» 

 " For want of this necessary article I must have been forced to 

 " swallow numbers of these insefl.s with every breath. The Laplanders 

 " have a specific of their own against those unpleasant intruders; 

 " they besmear their hands and face with a kind of rosin. This num- 

 " berless quantity of teazing insefts is not without its utility; they 

 " serve as food to the birds of passage ; and the latter are a valuable 

 " branch of the Laplanders subsistence. I remained a whole fortnight 

 " on the banks of the river, which is about four times as broad as the 

 " ground on which Upsal is erefted. I found it, as far as my sight could 

 " reach, entirely covered with wild geese, ducks, &c. The Laplanders 



have nothing to do but to catch and kill them, a resource which 

 " affords abundant supplies both in winter and summer." 



He chose at Upsal the motto, Tantus amor Florum — Thus great is 

 THE LOVE or flowers; and if ever a motto was verified and con- 

 firmedj Linnaeus has done it by the present. « Surely, he," says 



Baeck, 



