turn by a different way, through the mountains, and exhausted with: 
hardships, fatigue and hunger, reached Lulea on the eleventh of Au- 
gust. 
« All my food in those fatiguing excursions, which cannot be eased, 
ss by voluntary repose or riding,” says Lin n a u s in the account which he 
gave of his travels in the year 1.771, to his worthy friend and pupil, 
Doflor and Professor Gieske at Hamburgh , <s consisted for the most part 
« of fish and rein-deer’s milk ; bread, salt, and what is to be found every 
ss where else, did but seldom, recreate my palate. One of the greatest 
ss nuisances which I met with in Lapland , was the immense number of 
ss flies. I used to keep them off by drawing a crape over my face. 
s« For want of this necessary article I must have been forced to 
«s swallow numbers of these inserts 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- 
ss berless quantity of teazing insefls 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 ere&ed. I found it, as far as my sight could 
ss reach, entirely covered with wild geese, ducks, &c. The Laplanders 
ss have nothing to do but to catch and kill them, a resource which 
ss affords abundant supplies both in winter and summer.” 
He chose at Upsal the motto, Tantus amor Florum — Thus creat is 
the love of flowers; and if ever a motto was verified and con- 
firmed, Linnaeus has done it by the present. “ Surely, he,” says 
Baeck, 
