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better sort) charitable to the poor, not only by receiving those that are
destitute into their Huts; but supplying them with stock whereon to live. In
proof of this Tornæus and Sam. Rheen, say that ’tis usual with them to lend
gratis, for a considerable time, ten or twenty Rain-deers. Farther they are
civil and hospitable to Strangers, whom they with much kindness invite to
their Huts, and there treat with the best provisions they have. And of this
there are severall instances, when any have happened to be cast upon their
Coast by shipwrack, or else in the snow, or on the mountains have lost their
way. Moreover they are thus far cleanly as often to wash their hands and face;
tho notwithstanding Tornæus tells us, they are nasty and scabby, and
use not to comb their heads. Lastly they are sufficiently ingenious, making
for themselves all sorts of tools and implements for their fishing and hunting;
and also for severall manufactures, some of which they do very artificially,
as shall be shewn hereafter in its proper place.
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CHAP. VI.
Of the Originall of the Laplanders.
We have intimated our conjecture concerning the originall of the
Laps, and more then that it will be hard to produce, there being no
sober history which gives testimony in this affair. Negatively we may pass
sentence, and conclude they were not Swedes, no People differing more
both in constitution of body and mind, in language and habit, or whatever
else is taken for a character of likeness, or having the same originall.
Neither can any one think that they were ever Russians or Moscovites; seeing they
differ as much from them, as from the Swedes. The Russians are generally tall,
the Laplanders on the contrary very short; those are fat and corpulent, these
lean and slender; those have thick hair, long beards, and good complexions,
these wear their hair short and thin, and are dark and swarthy. But most of
all the language is different, in which the Laps and Russes have in a
manner no kind of agreement. They must then come from their Neighbours,
either the Norwegians on the one side, or the Finlanders upon the other.
But they could not well be derived from Norway, who are known to have
drawn their originall from the Swedes.
It remains therefore that they came from the Finlanders, who have a
certain division or allotment called Lappio. But tho we have shewed that
the name and originall of this Nation is not taken thence, it is not to be
doubted that they are of the race of the Finlanders and Samojedes, and
this is the opinion of most learned men, which may be farther proved by
many arguments. First the name of both Nations is the same, the Laplanders
in their own language being called Sabmi or Same, and the Finlanders
Suoni, which two differ only in the Dialect; and there is a tradition that
they had both the same Founder Jumi, who could not well have bin the
Author of diverse Nations. We may also observe that their languages have
much affinity, tho they be not the very same, as shall be proved at large in
a particular Chapter. The Finlanders call God, Jumala, the Laplanders, Jubmal,
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