Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - General Remarks Concerning Lapland - Section XXII
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
CONCERNING LAPLAND. 293
therein to depofit either a fmall quantity of tobacco, or fomething
that the deceafed was fondeft of when living. They fuppofed
the felicity of a future ftate to confift in feafting, fmoking to-
bacco, drinking brandy, and fimilar amufements ; and they be-
lieved that thefe enjoyments were to be participated in the other
world in a higher degree of perfection than they were experienced
in this. Such was their idea of the blifs to be found in the life
to come, in which they believed their rein-deer, as well as the
reft of the brute creation, were to be equal partakers.
It is a rule with the Laplanders, on the birth of a child, to af-
fign a female rein-deer, with all her future offspring, as a provifion
when the boy or girl fhall be grown up, which he or fhe becomes
entitled to, however the eftate may be difpofed of at the deceafe
of the parents. By this provifion, the child fometimes becomes
the owner of a confiderable herd.
SECTION
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
