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g88 GENERAL REMARKS
SECTION XXI.
Of Sports and Amufements.
i airs Laplanders do not obferve Chriftmas as a feftival ; nor
have they any fimilar days that they particularly diftinguith.
They know nothing, or very little, of playing at cards. They
exercife themfelves in throwing at a mark with a javelin: the
prizes in thefe games, for thofe who come neareft the mark, are
fometimes pieces of money, at other times tobacco, or fuch like
articles. Befides this diverfion, they have another with a leathern
ball ftuffed hard, which is ftruck in the air, and caught before it
falls to the ground.
A certain amufement called gaa/e /pil, or the game of fox and
geefe, is in great requeft with them. This is played by two par-
ties, on a board marked with fquare divifions for the purpofe ; one
of the parties managing thirteen pegs, called geefe, about this la-
byrinth ; and, as may be imagined, in the dexterity of purfuit and
efcape confifts the {kill of the players.
Leaping over a ftick held in an horizontal pofition by two Lap-
landers, is another diverfion with which they pafs their time.
Sometimes two Laplanders, having each of them a ftick in his
hands, from the end of one a rope being extended to the other,
will
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