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His collateral occupation consisted in shooting the game, which was 

 necessary for the support of the company, and in fishing and angling 

 whenever it was deemed expedient, 



Hedenslad, the sixth companion was commissioned to a£l as ceco- 

 nomist, to examine the dress of the Laplanders, their dwellings, their 

 way of preparing provisions, their matrimonial and funeral rites, their 

 knowledge of medicine, mode of living, diet, &c. Sec. and to describe 

 with the pen or the pencil such obje£ls as were most worthy his atten- 

 tion. His additional employment was to communicate to his fellow 

 companions the dispositions and regulations of the president, in the 

 same manner as the adjutant of a regiment announces the orders of the 

 general to his corps, and to call them together whenever it was required, 

 especially in the evening when an account was always given of the 

 transactions of the day; he was also to take care that every companion 

 went to bed and rose again to continue the journey at the proper time 

 appointed. 



San DEL, an American born in Pensylvania, as the seventh compa- 

 nion, did the duty of a steward and treasurer ; he had the chief care of 

 the fodder, cattle, wood, buying and selling, and discharged the eXf 

 pences of the whole company. 



Owing to these excellent regulations and their due observance, the 

 tour was continued , and terminated with the greatest ease and convenience.. 

 When the president discovered a village, it was not necessary for all 

 the company to ride thither, but the geographer alone was sent to enter 

 it. If some particular stone or fossil was found on the way, tb.e metal- 

 Ust was dire&ed to alight; at the sight of some curious plant or inseft,. 

 the botanist or zoologist did 'his duty ; they took the respective objeds 

 with them, and prepared a description to be inserted at night in 



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