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282 GENERAL REMARKS
The midwife’s office, throughout Lapland, is generally per-
formed by the hufband.
The paftor, or parfon of the place, is for the moft part god-
father to all the children of his parifh ; befides which, he does
the duties of parifh fchoolmafter and churchwarden.
When occafion requires the whole family to leave the tent, if
there happen to be a child too young to follow the reft, it is put
into a cheft, and tied with a cord, that it may do itfelf no mif-
chief by fire, or otherwife: or, if the child be above three years
old, it is faftened: with a ftrap by the foot, to a ftake driven into
the ground in fome convenient part of the hut or tent.
When the Laplanders meet, they embrace each other, crying
out buurifi! which is as much as to fay, God fave you!
The women fhave the heads of their children quite clofe; and
contrary to the practice of the ladies in all other countries, to
ufe the miffionary’s expreffion, k/ippe de ly/ke med en kniv : which
words, though very much approaching the Englifh language, will
be perhaps unintelligible, unlefs I tranflate them ; for doing which
I hope J fhall be pardoned by the reader. The meaning of the
miffionary’s expreffion is, that the good women of Lapland cut
their children’s lice with a knife and kill them.
As a remedy for pains in the limbs, they put a couple of liga-
tures about the part, and to the fpace betwixt them apply a burn-
ing firebrand, which they affirm never fails of giving relief.
No horfes are employed in Weft Finmark, the labour every-
where elfe performed by thofe ufeful animals, being there done by
men.
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