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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 173
reft, the following is the order of the beds: if only one family oc-
cupies the hut, the hufband and wife take up one fide with its
three divifions ; the other fide is then affigned to the children and
fervants. If, on the other hand, the children and fervants are
obliged to fleep on the fame fide with the mafter and miftrefs, the
order of the beds is in that cafe thus arranged: the hufband and
wife take the end fartheft from the door, which is efteemed the
moft honourable, and called the bo/thio-kiaefhie; the children fleep
in the middle partition, or, as they name it, ga/k-/oido, next the
fire-place ; and the fervants occupy the divifion near the entrance,
or the urfa-kiaefhie.
If a miffionary happen to take up his night’s lodging with them,
the beft or principal bed-chamber, the bo/shio-kiae/hie, is given up
to him, and the man and wife quit the hut, and this is the cafe as
long as he chufes to {tay with them.
When two families occupy the fame hut, the fire, the vacancy
towards the door wherein is placed the wood, and the {pace oppo-
fite to it at the further end for the pots and kettles are in common
to both families: yet it very rarely happens that any difpute or
quarrel arifes betwixt them; and thefe fimple people fet an ex-
ample of cordiality and brotherly love to the inhabitants of cities
and towns, who often confider the Laplanders as very little fupe-
rior to favages.
Their fheep and cattle have a ftall affigned them near the en-
trance of the hut, to which they repair by the fame door as the
reft of the family, of which they conftitute a part not of the leaft
confideration.
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