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20 TRAVELS
The food of thefe people in fummer confifts of fifth dried in the
fun. When the fifhery happens to be very productive, they fell
the furplus, or give it in exchange for meal, falt, or iron, which
they want for domeftic purpofes, They like better to receive meal
in exchange for their fifh, than to apply themfelves to the labour
of the foil. Among them agriculture is ftill in its primitive
ftate. They make no ufe of the plough, but work the ground by
the force of their arms, though the parfon has been at much
pains, but without fuccefs, to teach them the advantage of that
implement. He ufed himfelf to yoke his cow to the plough, and
cultivate a fmall field of his own, in order to fet an example to
others. As foon as the fnow has begun to fall in autumn, they
carefully obferve the traces of the bear, and go out to attack him
in parties of three or four perfons. About the middle of Auguft,
the feafon when the birds caft their feathers, they have confider-
able fuccefs in the chafe of wild ducks and other aquatics, which
they knock down with the oar, thefe animals being then unable
to efcape from them by the affiftance of their wings.
When they have cut down their hay and fufficiently dried it,
they put it upon a fort of frame, raifed high above the ground,
on four pofts, fo as not only to fecure it from being humid by the
overflowing of the river, but alfo from being carried away by the
force of the current. Some of them poffefs rein-deer, which in
fummer they intruft to the care of a Laplander, who conducts
them into the vallies among the mountains, and watches and at-
tends them in their pafture.
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