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8o Of the Houjes of the Laplanders.
and fiSheS for] themfelves <, and yet to fake care that they destroy not the
breed. But this cannot be done if they Should live alwaies in one place,
and therefore it is that Bur<sus Saies, they order their habitations according
to the SeaSons of fiShing, hunting, fee. Now this conveniency cannot be in
all places at all times alike, for filh do abound most when about the time of
their Spawning they are gathered together , which fome f Sh do at one time,
and fome at another,and one fort in one Lake, and another fort in another
Lake; fo that they that are of this trade cannot alwaies live in cne place*
In like manner it is alfo with their Rain-deers: and therefore Sam Rheen
faies they take their jcurneys either to provide pafture for their
Rain-deers, or to filh : for at that time, when fifties generate either in this or
that Lake or River, then the Laf lander, with his houfe and family , takes
his journy. But this journeying is not fo as that they Should forfake and
never return again to their former places; but they do, as it were, get
in a circle : fo that in the Space of a year, the pafture being again grown
that was before confuined, they return into the Same Seats again. This is
the cuftom of the Laplanders that live in the Mountains .but they that live
in the Woods, do not only once a year, butofiuer return into the Same
places. For they leave and return to their habitations feverall times in a
ytar, viz. as often as occaSion isofferred either of fiShing, fowling, hunting,
fee. Now they do So order their journeys, that the FiShtrmen at thoSe
times when the fifties do Spawn, do alwaies live on the fide oSSome River.
They that take care of, and trade with Rain-deers, do in the Winter live
in the Woods , but in the Summer afcend towards the mountains oS
Norway : Sor in the Winter they cannot abide on thoSe Mountains, where there
are So frequent ftorms , great Snows, and no Wood. At rha^eafon
therefore they defcend into the nigheft Woods, where by reafon of the depth
of the Snow they can eafily keep their Rain-deers together: So that from
Christinas untill the Feast of the Annunciation they remain for the most
part in one place, at which time the Snow beginning to melt, they march
nigher and nigher again towards the Mountains, where they remain till S.
Ericus’s day: about which time becaufe the female Rain-deer ufe to bring
forth , therefore they remain in the fame place untill the feast of S. John,
or Midfummer-day. Afterwards, when, as well in the Mountains as Vallies,
the grafs and pafture do moft florifli, they proceed farther and farther, fome
on the tops of the higheft Mountains, where the Rain-deers are lefs
infe-fted with flies and gnats, in which Mountains they wander up and down
till thefeaft ofS. Bartholomew, when by little and little they betake
themfelves to the Woods again , and then Chrijlmas coming they do again as we
told you in the beginning. And thefe are the circuits of the LafTahJtfi; and
reafons why they cannot Stay in one place, together with the times of their
feverall removes. But now thefe journeys Sometimes are for many miles,
and of a far longer fpace of time, fo that fometimes they march for 20
miles and farther. Now becaufe Some of them live in the Mountains, Some
among the Trees , efpecially Pine-trees , nigh the Rivers and Lakes ;
therefore are they accordingly called by different names. Some are called ftxll
Laf per, becaufe they live in the Mountains nigh Norway , which are called
fall. Others are termed Craan Laf per , becaufe they live among the Pine
trees, which are called by the Swedes and Norwegians, Craan. For their
^ journeys
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