Carl Linnaeus, The Lapland Journey, translated by Peter Graves (Edinburgh: Lockharton Press, 1995), p. 137.
The Mountains [2], 15/07/1732, ¶709:
When we arrived at the hut, I saw some reindeer with horns no more than a 1/2 inch long because the horse-flies had eaten them away while they were still soft. The horse-flies in Norway are worse than the mosquitoes in Swedish Lappmark.