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is barter.. The Laplanders give the skins of rein-deer, foxes, wolves, and bears, with gloves and shoes, or rather short boots, in exchange for coarse flannels, but above all, for brandy, tobbacco, meal, and salt.

In the course of our journey through these lofty and dreary regions, we started a white hare, and some birds of different sorts: but it was not without difficulty and trouble that we could fire a shot, on account of the insects. The pleasure of shooting any thing was dearly purchased by the pain to be endured in performing that operation. In order to charge, level our pieces, and take aim, it was necessary to pull off our gloves, and put aside the veils that covered our faces: but when all this was done, or while doing, our enemies, ever watchful for a favourable moment of attack, allured by the scent of their prey, fell on the parts exposed without mercy by millions.

'We began to be exceedingly fatigued; but as there was no fuel at hand for making fires to drive away the musquitoes, which did not permit us either to take refreshment or repose, we pushed on in quest of some trees, and made, by a roundabout way, towards a cabin, which we were told by one of the oldest of our guides, had been erected in a plantation not far off by some travelling merchants, for the purpose of resting and warming themselves in the winter season, while the Laplanders baited their rein-deer. This cabin is a square room about eight or ten feet in diameter, constructed of wood, with a hole in the top for letting out the smoke of the fire in the centre. We did not all go into the cabin at once; but after the Laplanders had collecte abundance of the withered branches of trees, one of them entered alone and lighted the fire, having first used the precaution of stopping up the hole in the roof in order to keep in the smoke. When the chamber was so completely filled with smoke as almost to prevent respiration, the rest of the company were permitted to go into it. The insects, with which we were covered from head to foot, were obliged to quit their prey and remain at the door, enraged that they durst not advance to attack us in This little hole, in which we were all huddled one

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auong another, quite full of smoke, and with no other carpet or floor than the bare earth, was more agreeable to us than any of the inns I had ever visited in France or England. In the middle of the room there was a good fire, and our tent placed on leaves of the birch-tree served us for a bed. We now set about dressing the game we had killed, being ourselves the cooks. We had a comfortable supper; and while the thick and pungent smoke made the tears trickle down our cheeks in large drops, we merrily drank, in a bumper of brandy, to the destruction of our enemies, who kept us in a state of blockade, still hovering at the gate of our citadel, and furious with resentment at the trick we had played them.'

On reaching Alten, they were conducted to the house of a Norwegian merchant. On the road,' says our adventurer, 'we observed in an adjoining pasture two or three horses. The appearance of this animal, which we had not seen in the course of five hundred miles, indicated that we had come to the residence of a person who was a stranger here, and the native of a civilized country. The house was situated on an eminence, and commanded on one side a view of the opposite mountains, and the masses of snow with which they are constantly covered; on the other side it afforded a prospect to the Frozen Ocean, which here penetrates into the land, and forms a considerable gulph, near which the house in question was built. We were delighted at finding ourselves at so short a distance from the object of our journey, which was to put an end to our toils and hardships. The beautiful colour of the sea, and the brilliant transparency of the waters, offered a most pleasing spectacle to our eyes; but nothing, indeed, cheered our minds so much as the idea of having so far succeeded in our enterprise. The sight of mountains covered with snow, and the name of the Frozen Ocean, amidst a heat as great as that in Italy, heightened the contrast between those opposite circumstances, and represented this place to our imagination as something singular and extraordinary, which was not to be met with in any other part of the world.'

Determined to visit the North Cape, which was one hundred miles distant, our travellers engaged a boat to go by

sea, for the peninsula is one continuation of mountains, intersected by lakes, rivers, and impenetrable morasses. The North Cape is described to be an enormous rock projecting into the ocean, where every thing is sterile, sad, and despondent. On the coast, during this excursion, they were hospitably entertained, and remarked that the Laplanders seemed to live in plenty, and were strangers to the coersions of a regular government. Having thus achieved the object of their perilous journey, our travellers returned by a similar route to that by which they had advanced, and our author concludes in the words of Reignard, who also travelled in Lapland." Thus ends a course which I would not but have made for all the gold in the world, and which I will not for all the gold in the world make over again."

ANSON'S VOYAGE

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THE WORLD.

IN the summer of the year 1739, a war with Spain appearing inevitable, the ministers determined to attack the distant settlements of that nation. The command of this expedition was entrusted to Mr. George Anson, then captain of the Centurion. The squadron put under his orders consisted of five men of war, a sloop of war, and two victualling ships. They were the Centurion of sixty guns, four hundred men, George Anson, esquire, commander; the Gloucester of fifty guns, three hundred men, Richard Norris commander: the Severn of fifty guns, three hundred men, the honourable Edward

Legg commander; the Pearl of forty guns, two hundred and fifty men, Matthew Mitchel commander; the Wager of twenty-eight guns, one hundred and sixty men, Dandy Kidd commander; and the Tryal sloop of eight guns, one hundred men, the honourable John Murray commander; the two victuallers were pinks, the largest of about four hundred, and the other of about two hundred tons burthen. Besides the complement of men borne by the abovementioned ships as their crews, there were embarked on board the squadron about four hundred and seventy invalids and marines, under the denomination of land-forces, which was commanded by lieutenant colonel Cracherode. After many vexatious de lays and disappointment, the whole weighed from St. Helens on the 18th of September.

Having touched at Madeira, captain Norris returned to England for the recovery of his health, captain Mitchell being appointed in his room. Here they learned that the Spaniards had sent out a fleet to defeat the object of their expedition: but it seems that Pizarro was obliged to return to Europe, after having lost four ships of war, and a sloop with upwards of three thousand seamen, and a regiment of soldiers, by a series of the most calamitous events.

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After touching at St. Catherine's on the Brazilian coast, the commodore appointed the port of St. Julian for the next place of rendezvous in case of separation. On the 18th of February,' says the narrator of this interesting voyage, we discovered a sail, upon which the Severn and Gloucester were both directed to give chace; but we soon found it to be the Pearl, which separated from us a few days after we left St. Catherine's, and on this we made a signal for the Severn to rejoin the squadron, leaving the Gloucester alone in the pursuit. And now we were surprised to see, that on the Gloucester's approach, the people on board the Pearl increased their sail, and stood from her. However, the Gloucester came up with them, but found them with their hammocks in their nettings, and every thing ready for an engagement. At two in the afternoon the Pearl joined us, and running up under our stern, lieutenant Salt hailed the VOL. IV.(75)

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commodore, and acquainted him that captain Kidd died on the 31st of January. He likewise informed him, that he had seen five large ships the 10th instant, which he for some time imagined to be our squadron: That he suffered the commanding ship, which wore a red broad pennant, exactly resembling that of the commodore, at the main top-mast head, to come within gun-shot of him before he discovered his mistake; but then finding it not to be the Centurion, he haled close upon the wind, and crowded from them with all his sail, and standing across a ripling, where they hesitated to follow him, he happily escaped. He made them to be five Spanish men of war, one of them exceedingly like the Gloucester, which was the occasion of his apprehensions when the Gloucester chased him. By their appearance he thought they consisted of two ships of seventy guns, two of fifty, and one of forty guns. The whole squadron continued in chace of him all that day, but at night finding they could not get near him, they gave over the chace, and directed their course to the southward.

And now had it not been for the necessity we were under of refitting the Tryal, this piece of intelligence would have prevented our making any stay at St. Julian's; but as it was impossible for that sloop to proceed round the cape in her present condition, some stay there was inevitable, and therefore the same evening we came to an anchor again in twentyfive fathom water, the bottom a mixture of mud and sand, and the high hummock bearing S. W. by W. And weighing at nine in the morning, we soon after sent the two cutters belonging to the Centurion and Severn in shore, to discover the harbour of St. Julian, while the ships kept standing along the coast, at about the distance of a league from the land. At six o'clock we anchored in the bay of St. Julian, in nineteen fathom, the bottom muddy ground with sand, the northermost land in sight bearing N. and by E, the southermost S. E, and the high hummock, to which sir John Narborough formerly gave the name of Wood's Mount, W. S. W. Soon after, the cutter returned on board having discovered the harbour, which did not appear to us in our situation, the

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