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Of the Laplanders T>ivertifemen(s. toy
men and women, the boies and girles together, nor do the men Shew then;’
Selves more expert at it then the women. They befideshaveanotherpLy
at ball: in the hard frozen Snow they draw two lines at Some distance from
one another, then alt the multitude both of men and women parting inta
tttofides, one applies it Self to thedefence of this, the other of that line;
then they meet in the middle Space between their two goals, and fling down
the ball, then each partie with bandies and clubs drives to strike the ball
croSs the oppofite parties line, each party still maintaining the defence of
its own line; but if one Side chance to strike the ball with their bandies over
the others line (for it is foul play to fling it with their hands) and So take
their goal, that is accounted the conquering Side. The Sports asyet men*
tionedare Such as belong to the younger Sort, as well as to thofe of more
mature age : the next is peculiar to thefe last and only to men. Their
custom is to Separate themfelves into two companies, and attacque one another
by wrestling: first each company Stands like a file of Soldiers all along in
order to confront the adverSe company .• then each man catches his
adver-fary by the girdle, wherewith all Laplanders are alwaies girt, as is elswhere
’ Shown, (their girdle goes fix times round theirbody, and fo is fast and
fittest for their purpofe,) fo each man having caught hold, endeavors to fling
the other down, which they are not allowed to attempt by craft or deceit,as
by any lock or the like ; Any one that is found delinquent in this kind, is
branded for a fowl plaier, and excluded the lifts. Thefe are the fports that
are almoft peculiar to the Laplanders: befides them they ufe fome, which
they borrow from other places, fuch is playing at Cards, a fport
fufficient-ly known thorough all Europe, for even the Laplanders take no little
latis-faflion in it: they procure their Cards of the Merchants that trade thirher.
They ufe likewife to play at dice, which they themfelves make of wood
after the common faShion, with this only difference, that whereas dice
commonly have Some number of fpots inferibed on every fide, they have a
figure made only on one fide like an X. he wins in this Sport, that carting
two Dies, on the top of either can Show the X. their Stakes are ufually
Squirrils skins, or fome Small trifles, and in the failance of thefe leaden
bullets, which they ufe in their hunting to charge their Guns withal: and it
happens fomeiimes that a fellow having loft all his bullets, in hope of
repairing his damage by winning again, not only at prefenr will be fenfibie of
the harm, but being difappointed of his Hunting puts to Stake and loofes
his future acquisitions and hope of livelihood. Thefe are the ufual waies,
whereby the people of Lapland ipend their leilure times and divert
them-Selves.
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