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traverfe, and tracks to chufe, and during the whole of the route 
was under a conflant neceffity of obferving, comparing, and de¬ 
ciding ; three operations of the mind with which the Laplanders 
were but little acquainted. In the courfe of his running along the 
banks of the river, through fhrubs and brufhwood, he darted fome 
game, which, in thofe parts, during the fummer feafon, is very 
plentiful. We fhot fome ducks of a fpecies peculiar to thofe re¬ 
gions, the anas nigra of Linnaeus, fome geefe (anas alb ifr anus , Lin.) 
and a great number of groufe, which are here very common, and 
which, riling all of a fudden very near the boats, prefent an excel¬ 
lent mark to the fportfman. 
The river of Pepojovaivi does not pafs clofe to the village of 
Kautokeino, but at the didance of about a mile. That mile we 
were obliged to walk on foot, and to have our luggage carried by 
land. In walking over this fpace, I fell in with fome birds, parti¬ 
cularly the curlew (fcolopax arquota, Lin.) which, to my adcnifli- 
ment, I found in this country very fearlefs and familiar, although 
in other parts, and even at Uleaborg, it is not to be approached 
without the greated difficulty. I killed two of thefe birds with¬ 
out turning afide from my path: I brought down alfo fome 
plover. 
When we arrived at Kautokeino, which was about an hour after 
midnight, we were furprifed to find the whole village in a Rate of 
alarm. All the women were at the doors of their houfes in their 
drifts, and the men in the dreets or rather lanes. Their terror 
was occafioned by the reports of our fowling pieces; and it was 
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