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52 TRAVELS
After fupper we employed ourfelves in obferving all the man-
ners and actions of the Laplanders, in order to form an idea of
their mode of living. With this view we propofed feveral quef-
tions to them. The two children were chubby, robuft, and
hearty. They did not feem to be at all {truck with furprife or
awe at our appearance, nor were they in the leaft difcompofed by
our prefence, or put out.of their ufual way. They went to the
river and fetched water, which they would fometimes throw on
our fhoes, and fometimes on our baggage. They did fome damage
or other to every thing they laid their hands on, and deranged
whatever was within their reach; yet the Laplanders took no
more notice of the children’s behaviour, than if they had not
exifted. They faw all their motions ; they fuffered all the mifchief
they did with the moft perfect indifference. They cared for no-
thing. The children feemed to be the fovereigns of the place.
The Laplanders never faid fo much as one word to them of any
kind. They never obferved that it was not well done to throw
water on the fhoes of ftrangers, or gave them any leffons refpect-
ing good manners and propriety of conduct. Thefe, indeed, are
terms and ideas with which the Laplanders are wholly unac-
quainted ; and their only mode of training up their children is not
to train them at all.
In the mean time, while the children were thus engaged in
doing all the mifchief in their power, the old Laplanders were
pufied in cooking their fupper, which confifted of various fifth cut
into pieces and boiled in a pot, together with fome dried fat of
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