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THROUGH LAPLAND. 79
caution that nothing can equal. When a Laplander perceives one
of thofe animals at the diftance of about half an Englifh mile, he
takes a circuit to the windward ; coming nearer and nearer to it,
creeping on his hands and feet, until he comes within gun-fhot.
I have been affured by a Laplander, that he has been obliged to
creep in this manner for five miles, through fhrubs and mofs, in
order to reach the moft convenient fpot for taking aim at his
prey.
In the fmall village of Kautokeino, there is in the month of
February an annual fair, which is frequented by the neighbouring
Laplanders and the merchants from Tornea, who come thither
for the purpofe of purchafing rein-deer fkins, furs, and other arti-
cles. In thofe fairs the medium of trade is barter. The Laplan-
ders give the {kins of rein-deer, foxes, wolves, and. bears, with
gloves and fhoes, or rather fhort boots, in exchange for coarfe flan-
nels, but above all for brandy, tobacco, meal, and falt.
They have a few cows and fheep, which in fome degree fupply
them with milk and wool. For fodder to their cows, when they
have not hay enough, they gather the mofs that the rein-deer
feeds upon, and which the cows, for want of better nourifhment
are glad to live upon. On the adjacent mountains there is a kind
of mofs which the fheep will. eat, and even feem to like. As fheep
do not form any article of barter or commerce, they are to be
purchafed at a. very low price. We bought fome for our kitchen,
at the rate of eighteen pence Englifh a-piece.
The people in thofe parts are neither ignorant of the ufe of
money,
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