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•jo Of the Laplanders Fairs
with other Nations ; for they that dwell among the mountains that divide
Norway and Swedland, deal both with the Norwegians and Swedes, and they
that live more Northerly and Easterly with the Ruffians and Finlanders.
But I come to the commodities themSelves , which Joviumiaies are only
white skins, or furrs , called Ermines. Zieglerus reckons fiShes alfo, of
which they have fo great draughts, that they are forced to keep them in
trunks and ponds till they can tranfport them into Northbothnia and Raffia,
alb*. But there are feveral other forts of skins , which Olaut Magnus
comprehends under a more general term, and calls pelles pretiofts. Sam.Rhetn
gives us this catalogue of them, the commodities of the Laplanders are,
Rain-deers, skins of Raindeers, skins of black, yellow, blew, white Foxes; skins
of Otters, of Gluttons, or Badgers, of Martins, of Beavers, of Squirrils,
of Wolves, and of Bears, Laplandilh garments, Boots, Shoes, Gloves, dried
Pike, and Cheefes of Rain-deers. With thefe commodities the Laplanders
traffic for Silver,Patacoons, Wollen and linnen Cloth , Copper,
Alchi-my, Salt, Corn, Bulls hides, Sulphur, Needles and Pins, Knives, Spirit
of Wine, and which is more strange for Tobacco, of which as I faid
before they are great admirers.
Upon all thefe things as was but now declared, there was a certain rate
fet by Charles the ninth, according to which they were to be bought up
for the ufe of the Crown; and the fame custom is fo far yet obferved, that to
this very day, with whomfoever they deal, they have a certain eSHmate,
whereby they prize both their own and others commodities: the
proportion of which rates is according to the Patacoon, or which is the fame thing
with them, 2 ounces of filver. For example, an ordinary Rain-deer they
value at 2 Patacoons, or 4 ounces of filver, the skin of a wild Rain-deer
at one Patacoon and \, or 3 ounces of filver; the skin of a tame male
Rain-deer at one Patacoon, but if caftrated, at -J of a Patacoon , and if a
female at So likewife an ordinary Fox skin is worth a Patacoon, 4o gray
colored Squirril skins are valued at the fame price, which number of thofe
skins they call timber. The skin of a Martin at the fame price, 3 white Fox
skins at the fame price, a Bears skin is worth 2 Patacoons, and a Wolves
skin as much, an ordinary Laplandilh garment, which they call Mudd,
is worth 3 Patacoons, a pair of Boots half a Patacoon , and 4 pair of Shoes,
4 pair of gloves , and one pound of dried Pike, each of them are valued at
the fame price.
Now on the other fide, of the commodities for which they traffic, an
ell of ordinary cloth , commonly called Silefian or Tangermyttdenfe, they
esteem at the rate of a Patacoon, or 2 ounces of filver; 3 pound of Copper
at the fame rate, and one tunn pf corn at 2 Patacoons and 7, or 5 ounces
of filver, 2 pound of Salt at \ of a Patacoon, 10 yards of courfe cloth,
fuch as we call home-fyun, and they call Waldmar, is worth a Patacoon,
a Can of fpirit of Wine half as much 5 but if they chance to light upon any
commodities of a lower price, they value them by gray colored Squirril
skins , proceeding from one to to, which number of skins they call Artcg,
and value at ; of a Patacoon, and thefe are the commodities that drive
the trade between the Swede and Laplander. But to thofe of Norway they
carry all Sorts of coverlets, made of the skins of Rain-deers, alfo the beafts
themfelves, their skins and cheefes, and the feathers of Birds; moreover
thofe
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