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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 159
amply and inftantly fupplied, and charity appears unfolicited with
open hands. The miffionary, however, admits, that the Lap-
landers are not entirely exempt from thofe vices which ever pre-
vail more or lefs among{ft mankind in a ftate of fociety. They
cannot refift the temptation of ebriety, and yield to the allure-
ments of avarice. They will get drunk, like the men of other
countries, when ftrong liquor comes in their way; and cannot
avoid cheating, like other dealers, when they can do it’ without
danger of detection. The fkins of the rein-deer are more or lefs
valuable, according to the feafon in which they are killed. If the~
animal be flain in the fpring, his hide is found perforated by an
infeé&t which buries itfelf in it, and lays there its eggs; but it 1s
otherwife with the rein-deer killed in the winter. To defraud
the purchafer by trying to obtain the fame price for a defective
fkin as for a perfe€&t one, the Laplander artfully clofes up the
holes in the fkin; and, in order to impofe upon the credulous
trader, will not fcruple to warrant it free from defect, and affert
that the beaft was killed in autumn; though he well knows the
cafe to be quite the reverfe ; that the {kin 1s full of holes, and the
deer was killed in fpring, or the worft feafon.
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