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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 215
fame time a ftrange kind of growling or murmur. However that
may be, it is pretty certain that the bear feeks his prey, in the
winter feafon, only in the night time. Now it often happens
that the Laplander, in fearch of very different game, by means of
his dogs, difcovers the retreat which the bear has chofen for his
winter quarters. Whenever this is the cafe, the Laplander pre-
pares to furprife him in his retirement; and in order to this, cuts
down from the neareft trees a number of branches, which he
plants and interweaves very ftrongly about the entrance of his den,
leaving a fpace juft fufficient for him to thruft his head through:
this done, and being provided with a hatchet, the Laplander {ets
about roufing the fleeping animal, who, provoked with the hun-
ter’s temerity and infults, advances with the utmoft rage towards
the opening; but no fooner does he put his head through the
wicket, which has been made for the purpofe, than the hunter
levels a ftroke with the hatchet, which, if it hit him below the
eyes, to a certainty brings the beaft to the ground. In hunting
both the rein-decr and bears, the Laplanders make great ufe of
their dogs. The greafe of the bear is in much requeft with the
inhabitants as a fovereign cure, in form of an unguent, for pains in
the limbs; but it is a prevailing opinion with them, that it muft
be applied according to the fex, the male bear’s greafe as a remedy
for the man’s ailments, and the female’s for thofe of the woman’s,
and that, when indifcriminately ufed, it can be of no fervice.
Few or no lynxes are feen in Finmark, but wolves are very nu-
merous; and for thefe there are various names in different parts
of
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