THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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CHAPTER VI. 
The Plant Angelica, accounted delicious Food by the Laplanders : Its 
falutary Qualities—The Molejlatlon from the Mufquetoes aug¬ 
mented—Arrive at the river Pepojovaivl—Meet with fome Lap- 
land Flfhermen , and two Children—Manners of thefe People; Be¬ 
haviour of the Children—The Laplanders cook their Supper: their 
Mode of Eating—Sufplcion they entertain of the fuppofed Emlf- 
faries of Government—The Miffionarles hi Lapland—Notions of 
the Laplanders concerning Religion and civil Inflitutlons—Their 
unsocial Way of Living—Jncreafe of Wolves in Lapland during 
late Years—Journey purfued In Boats, on the River Pepojovaivl 
II 7E gained at laft the oppofite banks of the lake, and without 
any accident. Our Laplanders quitted the boats, and we 
purfued our journey on foot as before. On the border of this lake, 
one of thefe people fpying a certain plant, ran to gather it, and 
devoured it with as much avidity as if it had been the moft deli¬ 
cious morfel in the world. It was the famous plant Angelica, 
the chief luxury of the North, and which is deemed a very great 
antifcorbutic. Being defirous of tailing it, one was given to me, 
and I found it fo agreeable to my palate, that I foon became 
fonder of it than even the Laplanders themfelves. I am fully 
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