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CONCERNING LAPLAND.
153
The Laplanders are for the moft part fhort in ftature, but they
poffefs a tolerable fhare of bodily ftrength. They are certainly a
very hardy race of people, and are able to undergo great labour,
and actually fupport themfelves under the extraordinary feverity of
their climate with a wonderful degree of patience and fortitude.
In proof of this our miffionary mentions the inftance of a woman
who croffed mountains of ice and fnow in the month of De-
cember, five days after her delivery of a child, in order to attend
the prayers of what is commonly called churching. The moun-
tain Laplanders, and thofe of the fea-coaft, or the maritime Lap-
landers, are equally objects of admiration in this refpect, that they
are able to breathe amidft the fuffocating {moke of their tents and
huts, when the only aperture by which the fmoke can pafs is
clofed, in order to keep out the weather; and as it has been ob-
ferved that the Laplanders are by nature and from habit able to
endure great hardfhips, and fuftain exceffive labour with patience,
fo it has been long fince remarked, that the moft fimple me-
dicaments, which elfewhere are little efteemed, have fufficient
efficacy to reftore them to health, unlefs their diforders are of a
very violent nature. This truth is eftablifhed by long experience,
and feems as if Providence, in compenfation for their inability to
procure extraordinary affiftance, permitted the fame effects to be
produced by the moft common means. They feta high value on
fpices, and no prefent is more acceptable to a Laplander than that
which either confifts of tobacco, pepper, ginger, and the like, let
the quantity be ever fo fmall.
Mov. Ii. x ; They
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