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158 GENERAL REMARKS
more eafily gained, and longer retained when delivered by word
of mouth, than when communicated in writing. It would feem
that the ear is lefs diftracted than the eye ; that the intenfenefs of
the mind is greater in hearing than in feeing. The miffionary
adds his fervent with, that his fellow-labourers in this vineyard of
divine truth, would qualify themfelves for the work, by acquiring
a thorough knowledge of the Lapland tongue, fo as to preach
and pray in it to the Laplanders, as not many of the men have
a knowledge of the Danifh language, further than the ufe of a
few words and phrafes, which occur in the courfe of traffic ;
and of the women, not one is the leaft acquainted with it.
The Laplanders hold the miffionaries fent amongft them in the
greateft efteem, and fhew them much refpect. They falute them
with great reverence whenever they meet them, and give them
precedence upon all occafions. They make them frequent pre-
fents of what are reckoned in Lapland peculiar dainties, fuch as
frozen rein-deer’s milk, with the tongue and marrow of that ani-
mal. They are very attentive to keeping holy the fabbath-day ;
they ab{tain from curfing and fwearing, which are common vices
among the inhabitants of Norway, and they lead a religious and
moral life. Whoredom and adultery are fins rarely committed ;
and the crime of theft is little or not at all known amongft them ; -
fo that locks or bolts, for the fecurity of property in Lapland, are
entirely unneceflary. Norway {warms with beggars, but begging
is unknown among{t the Laplanders. If any one, from age or
infirmity, fhould chance to be in want, he finds his neceffaries
a amply
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