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convinced that I owe to this plant the uninterrupted good health 
which I enjoyed during all the time I was in thofe parts; where 
we had nothing elfe for our fubfiftence than dried or falted fifh, 
the dried flefli of the rein-deer, hard cheefe, bifcuit, and brandy; 
all of them heating and infalubrious aliments. The angelica was 
the only thing that was frefh, and the only vegetable that we had 
at our table. My companion, who had no relifh for this plant* 
was often troubled with pains in his ftomach, and with indi- 
geftion. 
Though it was now drawing towards midnight* the torment 
we fuffered from the mufquetoes, inftead of being abated was 
increafed. The night was perfectly calm, and the infects at¬ 
tracted by the effluvia of our Laplanders, purfued us in our 
courfe, furrounded us, and involved us as in a cloud. After tra¬ 
velling three miles over the rein-deer mofs, and through Runted 
fflrubs, we arrived greatly fatigued at the banks of the river Pe- 
pojovaivi, where we found a fire with fome Lapland fifher- 
men fitting by it, and two children about five or fix years of age. 
We began to make preparations for palling the night here, and 
the Laplanders fet about cooking their fupper. The mufquetoes 
this night annoyed us fo terribly, that it was not without the ut- 
moft difficulty we were able to fwallow a morfel of victuals. 
There was not fo much as a breath of wind: the column of 
fmoke that iffued from the fire mounted firaight upward in the 
atmofphere, fo that we were deprived of the benefit of fumiga¬ 
tion, and of taking what food we had, under the protection of a 
cloud 
