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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 209
provifions, and fuch neceflaries as they may have occafion for in
their journey. In their return to the mountains in autumn, the
rein-deer being in that feafon particularly fat, they kill as much
venifon as they judge neceffary, and lay it up in thefe ftore-houfes,
where it remains during the winter, being intended as a fupply for
themfelves and houfehold in the following {pring, when they fhall
be on their progrefs to the coatt.
In {pring and autumn, the earth being freed from its incum-
brance of fnow, the mountain Laplander and his family travel on
foot, his tent and the reft of his baggage being conveyed by the
rein-deer; and if his wife have a child at the breaft, the infant is
carried by her in the cradle already defcribed.
When he removes in winter, he takes with him every thing
belonging to his tent, even to the {tones which form his hearth;
and this he does in order that he may meet with neither difap-
pointment nor delay when arrived at the fpot whereon he intends
to pitch his tent. For the brufhwood with which he carpets the
infide of his tent, as well as firewood, he trufts to what he may be
able to procure within a little diftance. To convey his tent in
the winter feafon, he has a particular fledge, to which he har-
nefles one of his inferior deer; fo that it may be well fuppofed his
tent and all that belongs to it, is of no great weight.
The following is the order of the winter march: the hufband
proceeds in the leading fledge, and is followed by the wife in the
fecond, which fhe drives herfelf; and if the give fuck, fhe has her
child in the cradle by her fide, carefully wrapped up in furs, with
Vou. I. Ee a {mall
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