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GENERAL REMARKS 
SECTION XXVI. 
Of the firong Attachment of the Laplanders to their native 
Country . 
HP HE miffionary Lcems, on a review of the Rate and condition 
of the Laplanders, acknowledges, that their lituation is in- 
expreffibly hard and full of trouble : yet he obferves that being 
enured to this kind of life from their early years, their attachment 
to their native country is greater than that of nations who live in 
the enjoyment of every convenience and comfort; in proof of 
which, he gives an account of a commiffion which he received in 
a perfonal interview from his Daniffi Majefty, Chriftian VI. to 
lend a young Laplander to his court at Copenhagen, and the ex¬ 
treme difficulty he found in executing it. This interview being 
fo important a paffage in the miffionary’s own life, he relates it 
with great circumftantiality. It was an intereffing period ; for 
the time of his being prefented to his majefty very nearly coincided 
with that of his taking unto himfelf a wife. 
In the beginning of July 1733, he had gone to Aalfund in the 
province of Sund-Moeria Aletha-Rubergia : it was juft three weeks 
after his marriage, when he was prefented to the king by Admiral 
Rofenpalm. His majefty, who had received a very favourable 
account 
