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210 GENERAL REMARKS
a {mall fpace left open before its mouth to breathe through and
reccive the nipple, which, whenever fhe has occafion to put into
the child’s mouth, fhe is under the neceffity of {topping the
fledge, as fhe is obliged to kneel towards the fide of it, whilft the
applics the infant to her breaft. The reft of the family follow
the fledges on foot, having in charge to drive the rein-deer the
way they go.
It muft appear wonderful that the Laplanders are able to travel
in the winter by night as well as day, when the earth prefents one
entire furface or fheet of fnow, and not a fingle veftige 1s difco-
verable of human induftry and labour to direct their way, the
{now flying about in all directions at the fame time, and almoft
blinding them: yet it 1s certain, that they are at no difficulty to
find the fpot to which they are bound, and very rarely meet with
any accident. They fix bells to the harnefs of the rein-deer, as
before-mentioned, in order that they may be kept together by
hearing, when they cannot fee one another, after the light of their
fhort day fails them. To guide them in their route, they make
obfervation of the quarter from whence the wind blows, and by
night are directed by the ftars; and, as the miffionary obferves,
Providence and thefe never fail them, fo that he does not remem-
ber more than one fatal accident happening during the ten years
that, as has been already mentioned, he lived amongft them.
The Laplander has always his flint, fteel, and matches ready by
him, which he conftantly carries in a pouch in his bofom, occa-
fionally to light his pipe of tobacco, or a fire, as neceffity requires ;
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