THROUGH LAPLAND. 
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following the courfe of the Pcpojovaivi, they made up againft the 
current of a fmall and fmooth river, which falls into the former. 
They would give no farther account of this change in their move¬ 
ment, than by faying that they were doing what w 7 as right, and 
that they would conduct us in good time to Kautokeino accord¬ 
ing to our defire. As we had not any tolerable maps of this part 
of Lapland, and were totally unacquainted with the rivers or 
lakes that we might have to pafs, w T e could not make any vigo¬ 
rous oppofition to what our guides intended, and therefore judged 
it expedient to take no notice of what they did for fome time, but 
wait and fee the rcfult of this new r circumftance. It was not long 
before we difeovered that their objedt was to draw the nets and 
carry oft all the fifh they could find. Thefe nets were torn in fo 
many places, that the fifhes might make their efcape w 7 ith little 
difficulty ; but the quantity of them was fo great, that fome were 
found in every part of the net that was entire. The manner of 
fiffiing in Lapland is this: they have their nets fpread, and always 
ftanding in the water; they repair to them and draw them in 
whenever they want fiffi, wffiich they dry in the air, and by the 
heat of the fun. Nature has done every thing for thofe people ; 
and in proportion to her profufe bounty is their abominable indo¬ 
lence. The fiffiermen of the ifle of Kintafari were very different 
in their habits and difpofitions from thofe of Pepojovaivi. All 
their apparatus for fifhing w T as in the moft excellent order: their 
boats were found, their nets whole and faultlefs, and they drew 
them when they caff them. But the Kintafari fifhers w'ere not 
erratic 
