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LINNAEUS 
he underestimated the mileage, and on his return 
found that he had traversed 672 Swedish miles, 150 
on foot [respectively 4,793 and 996 English miles] 
and the time had increased from 20 weeks to 6 months. 
Even allowing that a part of these distances were so- 
called Lapp-miles (that is, according to the guide’s 
fancy), it is evident that the money was far too little. 
A great advantage was the hospitality he met with 
among Swedes, Norwegians and Finns. In Tornea 
and again in Abo, he was forced to borrow respectively 
fifty and fifteen shillings. Both during and after his 
travels, he must have been calculating how to improve 
his economic position. He was “ highly recommended 
for the Piper scholarship,” but as this was founded 
exclusively for Lund students, which University 
Linnaeus had left, it is not easy to understand the 
ground of his hopes. He had sent in his statement 
of expenses soon after his report to the Royal Society 
of Science, and later on an amended return, showing 
a deficit of 211 silver dalers [^15 16s. 6d.] but the 
Society regarded this as being too heavy a sum to 
refund. Finding himself saddled with debt, he 
exclaimed “ thus are Swedes rewarded,” though he 
challenged the whole world to accomplish a similar 
journey at the same cost. The Society then promised 
to give him a recommendation to Count Horn, but the 
intended journey to his house did not take place. 
The Royal scholarship (p. 40) which he had hitherto 
enjoyed, now ceased (in spite of the wishes of the 
medical faculty), as by its constitution it could not be 
continued after the spring term of 1732. But another 
scholarship existed, the Wrede, from which he hoped 
to get something to help him at Uppsala. No 
ordinary scholarship was vacant, but it was a custom, 
when the income exceeded the stipend, to bestow the 
surplus on needy students. An appeal supported by 
eight other students in Latin prose and verse was 
made to the Consistory in November for this surplus, 
but a competitor was in the field, namely, Olof Muren. 
