3 B ■ TRAVELS 
witnefles ourfelves of their reality. To this determination the 
fuccefs of our undertaking is chiefly to be afcribed. 
We were given to underftand that we might poffibly meet with 
Lome Lapland fifhermen upon the lake of Pallajervi; and with 
this view we afcended the little river Pallajoki, which derives its 
fource from it. This river is fo fhallow, of fo little width, and 
twifted into fo many windings, that it is with great difficulty na¬ 
vigated. Our embarraflments in afcending it multiplied as we 
proceeded: we were under the ncceffity, for the greater part of 
the courfe, to carry our baggage upon our backs, in order to 
lighten our boat. When we arrived at the lake there arofe fo 
ftrong a wind, that our boat was in danger of finking before we 
could make the little ifland of Kintafari. When we gained the 
ifland, we difcovered three fifhermen, who had eredled a kind of 
hut with boughs of trees, plaflered over with mud, and had hung 
up in it a quantity of fifh. to dry. This little ifland might take 
up about half an hour to walk round it. Near it was another 
ifland, about a fourth part lefs; but this was fo inconfiderable as 
to be without a name. 
The lake was furrounded with little hills covered with rein- 
' deer mofs, interfperfed with woods of birch and fir. (We were 
every where prefented with the contrafled view defcribed before, 
which a&ed fo forcibly upon our imagination, that we could not 
but fancy ourfelves upon fome inchanted ifland. When we looked 
round us, we difcovered nothing that referribled any country we 
had hitherto feen, and we feemed to be tranfported into a new 
world. 
