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a week or fortnight, after her delivery, will undertake a most tedious
journy, over the tops of Mountains, thorough wide Marshes and high
Woods with her Infant to the Priest; for the women of this Country are
naturally hardy, and able to endure any thing without trouble, and therefore,
tho they feed upon course food in their sicknesses, and drink nothing
else but water, yet they recover again quickly. They carry their young
Infants to the Priest, one way in the Summer time, and another way in
the Winter. In Winter they lay it upon a sledge. In Summer they put it
in a Pannier fastned to the back of a Rain-deer. The Infant is not set
upon the back of the Raindeer, but is tied in his cradle, and fastned to
tne pack saddle after this fashion.



Olaus Magnus makes them put in Baskets, as his words afore quoted
do intimate, and those Baskets too to be tied at their backs, and the
Picture he makes of them represents not only the woman, but the man too
so laden, each with two Children a piece: so that together they travell
with four Children, and with wooden shoes on their feet; but here I am
afraid the Painter followed his own fancy too much. Certain it is that the
Baskets there represented, bear no resemblance to those of Lapland.
The Laplanders are wholly ignorant of this sort of Baskets, that are
carried at ones back. Nor are their Baskets like wooden square Boxes, such
as his figure represents them, but of a round compass, and one part shut
down upon the other, as I have said elsewhere. But to return to their
Baptism, in it they give their Children names, according to the names of
some of their friends and kindred. Samuel Rheen adds that they affect to
put Pagan names upon them, such as Thor, Guaarm, Finne, Pagge; but that
the Priests avert them from so doing as much as possibly they can. And this
is peculiar with them, that they often change their names, and put others
upon them then those that were given them at their Baptism, for the love
they bear to some friend or kinsman deceased, whose memory thereby they
desire to preserve. Tornæus too avouches the same thing, and if at any time
in their younger years they fall into sickness, then they use the name given

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