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gone more danger and privation in that 
solitary expedition to the northern fron¬ 
tier of his native land, than in all Jus 
subsequent travels in foreign countries* 
I have omitted to mention one ac¬ 
commodation to which he had recourse, 
in the use of a boat wherever the rivers 
were navigable. The natives, an ac¬ 
tive and hardy race, glide down their 
streams in small light boats, until they 
reach a part where their course is in r 
tenupted by rocks or falls,, where the 
rapidity of the stream renders it unsafe 
to proceed. When the Laplander 
reaches such a spot, he lands, drags 
the little vessel to shore, and placing 
the two oars longitudinally, so as to 
cross the seat, turns it bottom upwards 
over his head ; the oars resting on his 
arms, and enabling him to carry it 
steadily. Thus equipped, he marches 
over hill and dale at a swift pace, ap¬ 
parently quite unencumbered by the 
