In the course of my tour, my guide having one day conducted me to his next neighbour, the latter was just about shifting his quarters, and therefore could not take charge of me. The former would not attend me any further, though I paid him well for his trouble, and entreated him not to desert me. I was obliged therefore to menace him with my hanger, upon which he took to his heels. He did not however succeed in his attempt to escape, for my servant soon caught him. His fears overcame him, and he promised, trembling, to accompany me as I wished. Observing that he very often turned his head about, I made him walk before me. As soon as we came to the residence of another Laplander, and before I had well entered the hut, he set out running, not back again the way we had come, but towards the mountains, so that the devil himself could not have caught him, and leaving both his money and his civility behind him. This is a proof that severity is not the best way of dealing here. My interpreter told me, that if the man had seen a gun cocked and presented at him, he would not have suffered a hundredth part of the alarm that he did. Many of the curious plants, of which I had in Lapmark found here and there a solitary individual, as a great rarity, were common enough in Norway. Hence I concluded that their seeds had been brought down by the torrents, the chief of them being aquatics, as the (_Pedicularis_) _Sceptrum-Carolinum_, _Astragalus_ (_alpinus_), _Acetosa_ with a notched leaf (_Rumex digynus_), the white _Pedicularis_ (_sylvatica_) as well as the purple, the Asphodel (_Tofieldia palustris_, _Fl. Brit. 397_,) &c. END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. _Printed by Richard Taylor and Co., Shoe Lane, London._ * * * * * Transcriber's Notes Changes made to the text (in the case of typographical errors) are as follows: Page 66: added missing semi-colon ("... terminated in the fore part by the plough-share; ...") Page 83: changed "grea" to "great" ( ... except the perfect flatness and great breadth of the surface of each, ...) Page 158 (Footnote [36]) changed period to comma after page reference (... see _p. 130_, that "it was a trifle not worth thinking about.") Page 167 deleted spurious apostrophe after "winter" (... that they might have a supply of it during the winter frosts?) Page 192 changed "Where-ever" to "Wherever" (Wherever these hillocks abounded, ...) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lachesis Lapponica, by Carl von Linné