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186 GENERAL REMARKS
vary his diet, the Laplander fometimes {mokes his venifon. To
do this, they have only to make pretty deep incifions in the pieces
that {moke may enter the meat, and to hang the joints on the top
of the tent, where it is foon cured.
Venifon is the chief food of the inhabitants of the mountains ;
but thofe on the fea coaft have beef and mutton, and both eat the
flefh of bears, wolves, foxes, otters, feals, and in fhort of all ani-
mals but fwine; pork being to a Laplander an abomination.
The Laplanders who are employed in catching falmon, live
upon that fifh fplit and dried. Dried fith is eaten by them with-
out any preparatory cooking; but before they put it into their
mouth, they dip each piece in train oil. Fifh with this kind
of fauce is given to children at the breaft; and to prepare it for
their tender mouths, the mother firft puts it into her own, and
mafticates it before fhe prefents it to the infant: thus they are ac-
cuftomed to the luxury of train oil from their birth, for fuch
every Laplander efteems it, and confiders its flavour as far fuperior
to that of butter. But it is not true, as has been afferted, that
they take off a pint of train oil at a meal, or that women in la-
bour fwallow a quantity of it in order to eafe their pains.
When their ftock of dried fith is reduced, they collect the
heads and bones of fifh which have any thing on them, and thefe,
when roafted before the fire, are put into a kettle with flices of
the blubber of feal, the bones having been previoufly inferted in
the belly of the feal, where they remain fome little time, that
they may be impregnated with the oil. Thefe ingredients are
fuffered
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