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6 «OA TOUR THROUGH
Sledge like achildin a cradle. He manages his carriage
with great dexterity by means of a ftick with a flat end,
to remove flones or any obftruétions which he might meet
with, In this fituation they travel with great rapidity.
Ce athe
‘The Laplander i is very dextevous’ in making ute
wood, He is his own carpenter and boat-builder. I was
not a little furprized, ina tent of wandering Laplanders,
to find the cheefe which they make of the rein-deer’s milk
curioufly imprefled with a wooden inftrument fuch as is
commonly ufed in the Englifh Daries.. They faften their
boards together, when they make their boats or other
moveables, with Twigs or the Nerves of the rein- -deer,
The women alfo make ule of “the latter as a fi ubftitute for
thread in fewing. “The Temale Laplanders fhew great in-
genuity in embroidering their Garments with brals-wire,
tin, or any other gaudy ornament, They take much des
light.in adorning | their ;heads,.: neck, and thoulders with
glals beads, &c. and are very’ fanciful in. their girdles
which are embroidered and fringed with large tufts at the.
two extremes and tiedin large knots; this they lpok upon
as the greateft ornament of their drefe;< 22 9¢ oc?
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