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Of the Garments of the Laplanders. 89
Saies he i I beleive they came to be SuppoSed all hairy like beafts, Some
reporting this out of ignorance , and Some delighting to tell of strange
wonders they Saw abroad. And truly it is not without reaSon that he gathers
thWable of hairy men to be railed from their hairy Garments, which fort
of monsters whether there be in other Countries I cannot tell, but I find
the Cyclops’% with one eye in their forehead by Adamnt Bremenjls to he placed
here upon the Same account, becaufe they had only a hole in their cap
through which they looked, all the reft of their body Seeming hairy, and
therefore this hblc they feigned to be an eye. But whereas he fairs the skins
.were of Bears, and Sea-Calves, he is a little mistaken , for theSe skins were
not So common among the Laplanders, and are by them designed quite for
another ufe. However thefe Garments they ufed after their falhion to adorn
with pieces of red, or other colored cloth , and embroider them with wire,
in flowers , stars, &c. as I will hereafter declare more at large.
But I come to the habit of the women., which alfo was of one Sort in the
Summer, and of another in the Winter.- In the Summer they wear coats
which cover their breafts, arms, and.all their bodyj about the middle they
are gathered, and So hang down, thefe they call Volpi. TheSe gowns they
alSo wear next their skin, for the ufe of Smocks is no more known among
women then theuSe of Shirts among men: and they horribly impofed upon
Lomenius Comes, that made him beleive. otherwifei Lomenius Saies thus, they
have Smocks, not made oflinnen, but of the entrails ofbeasts. which they
first Spin into a thread , and afterwards wear them: but all this is qui re falSe;
The entrals indeed they do Spin into thred,but of that they make neither
cloth nor Smocks, but ufe it to Sew their.skins; but women of the common
Sort wear courSecloth , and the better fort finer, as it is with the men;
which for the most partis Englilli cloth; richly wrought. They have alfo
a girdle , but different from that of the men, for it is much larger, and
fometimes three fingers broad , and then alfo it is adorned not with ftudf,
but plates of a fingers length ; or more, which are engraved with divers
fhapes of Birds, Flowers, &c. and thefe they fasten upon a. leathern fillet
fo nigh one another, that the girdle is almost covered with them. Thefe
plates are most commonly made of tin, from whence Sam. Rheen calls them
tin girdles, but thofe for the better fort are made of Silver. Upon thefe
girdles they hang many Alehymy chains, upon one of which they hang a
knife and Sheath, upon another a pouch or purfe, upon another a needle
cafe, and upon all a great company of Alchymy rings, according td the
falliicn of the men : Thefe things they do not hang by their fides, as women
among us ufe, hut before them. The weight of the trinkets they carry about
thtm, doth commonly weigh twenty pound, a pretty heavy burden, and
fuch as a man would wonder they Should be able to bear : but they are very
much delighted with it, efpecially with the number of the rings, the
gin-gling of which is very gratefull to their ear, and as they think no fin all
commendation to their beauty. Wexionius makes the chains and rings to be tin,
which 1 beleive is hardly true , commonly I am fure they were made of AU
chyn:y, and if they had bin of tin they had neither bin durable, nor would
they have made a noife. They have alfo another ornament for their breast,
which they call Kracha, it is made of red, or Some other colored cloth.
And first it goes about their neck, and then on both fides comes down upon
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