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164 GENERAL REMARKS
_often is, at fea, and chance to be wetted with falt water, the Lap-
lander, immediately on coming on fhore, rolls himfelf in the fnow,
to prevent the coat from being damaged by the falt-water.
The mountain Laplanders, by way of protection againft the fe-
verity of the weather, conftantly wear about their necks, whilft
they travel, the fkin of a fox’s cub ; obferving always to let the
tail reft on one fhoulder. "When the Swedifh merchants make a
journey over the mountains, they tie a marten’s {kin about their
necks for the fame purpofe, and, to ornament it, have pieces of
filver fixed ‘‘in thofe holes where eyes did once inhabit.” An up-
per coat, made of the {kin of the fawn of the rein-deer, is called
by the Laplanders moedda; the fhape is the fame as that made
from the {kin of the full grown one; but it has a border round
the fleeves, and is bound at bottom with a fringe of black dog’s
fkin. The fur coats which the Lapland women prepare for fale
to the richer part of their countrymen, are made of the {kins of
young rein-deer of a grey colour, and have the opening at the
breaft covered with a border of otter’s fkin. The lower extremity
has trimming all round of black dog’s fkin. From the bottom
upwards, on each fide, is a piece of fkin, cut in the fhape of a
wedge, fewed upon the coat. It is to be obferved, that all the
borders of the breaft and neck, with the other parts of the coat,
which are of cloth. are wrought with tinfel wire in various figures,
according to che tafte of the purchafers.
The men fometimes wear tanned leather gloves, which they
call rappakak ; but moft commonly they ufe gloves made from
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