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8o Of the Houjes of the Laplanders.
they uSe no other kind of pavement; cnly upon the boughs, for cleanlineft
fake, they lay skinsoSRain-deers, on which they fit and lie. And thefeare
the dwelling houfes of the Laplanders, befides which they have alfo
Storehouses in which they keep their commodities, efpecially flelh, fiih, and Such
other provisions 5 thefe they call Nalla, and make thus: they cut the upper
part of a tree off, fo that the body remain four or five ells from the ground
high , upon this trunk they place two rafters in the figure of an X, or S«
Andrews Crofs , and upon theSe they build their repofitory, making a door
to it, and covering it with boards. There is one thing peculiar to theSe
Storehouses , which is, that the door is not in the fide, but bottom of them, fo that
when the Laplander is come down, the door falls too, like a trap-door, and
all things are fafe. To thefe they go up by ladders which they make of the
trunks of trees, in which they cut great notches like flairs. Now the reafon
why they place them So high, is becauSe of the Bears and other wild beasts,
who oftentimes pull them down , and to the great dammage of the Master
eat all his provifion 5 they ufed alfo to cut off the bark of the tree, and
anoint the stock, fo that neither mice nor wild beasts could be able to climb
up for flipperinefs. And perhaps theSe are the houSes Olaus magnus meant,
when he Said, they placed their houSes upon trees for fear of v. ild beafts. But
that you may the better conceive thefe Store-houfes alfo, I Shall here give
you the Figure of them. 1. t
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