1st June. With much exertion we travelled by boat the whole night – if it can properly be called night when the light did not diminish at all, even though the sun was absent for about 1 1/2 hours and it grew rather cold. The settler accompanying me had to wade in the river and drag the boat behind him 3 miles at a time, for which purpose he had made himself shoes of birch bark. In the morning we went ashore to seek a guide, emissary or Lapp willing to take me further. We found an empty hut immediately, hastened 1 3/4 miles on to a second hut, which was also empty, and 1 mile from there to the 3rd likewise empty. After that I sent my man on to a 4th hut to find someone there. If there was anyone.