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LINNAEUS IN 1733 AND I 734 . 
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£t as (Eco- 
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, See. Sr 'd to describe 
with the pen or the pencil such obje&s 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 Pensylvama , 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 ex- 
pellees 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 ioi 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, the metal- 
list was directed to alight; at the sight of some curious plant or inseft, 
the botanist or zoologist did his duty ; they took the respeBive objeHs- 
with them, and prepared a description to. be inserted, at night in, 
