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Of the Laplanders Birds and Tifb. 129
been mentioned in another place, from whence I SuppoSe tis, that they
remain ftill to each Single family, and are not liable to division or to be
distributed among the heirs as other goods; for thefe are not their own proper
pofleSTions, as other goods are, but only granted from the crown of
Siped-land to them to receive the profits, and upon that Score every year they pay
a certain tribute, which we have treated of before, So that there remains
nothing elSe to be added here.
CHAP X X V 11L
O f their Cattel.
AFTER our discourse of the inhabitants of Lapland, their Nature
and manners, Something is to be Said of other things there
remarkable. First of their Cattel, of which they have Some common to other
Nations, Some proper only to themfelves. They have roHorfes, nor ASTes,
Oxen, nor Bulls, Sheep nor Goats. The inhabitants do not regard Horfes,
for the little ufe they have of them ; Oxen, Sheep, Goats, they procure from
their Neighbors, for the provifion of meat, wool, and hides, and they keep
them but one Summer, ftill killing them a Utile before Winter. The Beasts
proper to Lapland which no other Nation has, are Rain-deers, ’Peucerus
stiles them Tarandi, but without reafon, for the Rain-deer compared with
Tarandus as ’tis defcribed by Pliny, have fcarce any thing a like, the
Taran-dus having the bulk of an Ox, an head bigger than a stags, and hair as thick
and rough as a Bears, which he can change into any color, as he Shews in
his 8th book, but nothing of this agrees to the Raindeer, as we Shall Shew
anon. Likewife Gefntr did erre in bringing this Animal from two divers
Species. ’Tis not known who impofed the name •, but whatever become of the
Etymology or imposition of the name,tho it feem to be of late times, thebeast
it felf was long before known. The first that Wrote of him was Paulus
fVarnefrid: he fpeaks there of a people which he calls Scritobini, which were
doubtlefs the Laplanders, for he defcribes their cloths to be the fame with
thofe which the Laplanders call’d Mudd, he affirms that the beast of which
they had their hides was not unlike a Stag, which Serves to prove that they
were the Rain-deer, for fo thty are call’d by Herbeftenius, Damianus, and
Olaus, who tells us that they are Something taller then a Stag.-thofe which
have broad horns ( found most in the North ) are kfs than others. But tis
not the fame thing to talke of tallnefs and bulk; for tho other Stags owe their
height to their long legs, they have lefs bodies than the Rain-deer. They
have 3 horns, 2 branching outbackward, the third fprowting down their
foreheads ( which Olaus obferves is to guard them from the wild Beasts
efpe-cially the Wolves.) Lomenitis fpeaks of 4 horns, 2 backwards and 2
forwards, as appears by his pidure, in which the Artift falls Short of the matter,
as my draught which is more accurate will Iho.v: but Albertus Magnus makes
them have three rows of horns, for fojonjlonus out of him, they carry Sales
he 3 horns, each breeding 2 horns more, which makes his head Seera buftiy.
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