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TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF RUSSIA AND SIBERIA. 65
their ears. They live ina manner a wild and favage life, roving {till from one place of
the country to another, without any property of houfe or land more to one than
to another. ‘Their jeader or director in every company, is their papa or prieft.
On the north fide of Ruffia next to Corelia, lieth the country of Lappia, which
reacheth in length from the fartheft point northward, (towards the North Cape) to the
fartheft part S. E. (which the Ruffe ‘calleth Sweetneffe or Holy Nofe, the Englifhmen
“Cape-erace) about three hundred and forty-five verft or miles. From Sweetnet{é to
Candelox by the way of Verfega (which meafureth the breadth of that country) is ninety
miles or thereabouts. The whole country in amanner is either lakes or mountains,
which towards the fea fide are called Tondro, becaufe they are all of hard and craggy
rock, but the inland parts are well furnifhed with woods that grow on the hills fides,
the lakes lying between. Their diet iswery bare and fimple. Bread they have none,
but feed only upon fifth and fowl. They are fubject to the Emperor of Ruffia, and the
two kings of Sweden and Denmark: which all exaét tribute and cuftom: of them /as
‘was faid before,) but the Emperor of Ruffia beareth the greateft hand over them, and
exacteth of them far more than the reft. The opinion is that they were firft termed
Lappes of their brief and thoyt fpeech. The Ruffe divideth the whole nation of tie
Lappes into two forts. The one they call Nowremanfkoy Lapary, that is the Nor-
Wegian Lappes becaufe they be of the Danith religion. For the Danes and Norwe-
gians they account for one people, ‘The other that have no religion at all but live as
brute and heathenifh people, without God in the world, they call Dikoy Lapary, or
the wild Lappes.
The whole nation is utterly unlearned, having not fo much as the ufe of any alpha-
bet, or letteramong them. For practice of witchcraft and forcery they pafs all nations
in the world. Though for enchanting of fhips that fail alone their coat, (as! have
heard it reported,) and their giving of winds good to their friends, and contrary to
other, whom they mean to hurt by tying of certain knots upon a rope, (fomewhat like
to the tale of Eolus his windbag) is a very fable, deviled (as may feem) by themfelves,
to terrify failors for coming near their coaft. Their weapons are the long bow, and
hand gun, wherein they excel, as well for -quicknefs to charge and difcharge, as for
nearnefs at the mark by reafon of their continual practice (whereto they are forced) of
fhooting at wild fowl. _-Their manner is in fummer time to come down in great com-
panies to the fea fide, to Wardhuyfe, Cola, Kegor, and the bay of Vedagoba, and
there to fifth for cod, falmon, and but-fith, which they fell to the Ruffles, Danes, and
Norwegians, and now of late to the Englifhmen that trade thither with cloth, which
they exchange with the Laps and Corelians for their fifh, oil, and furs, whereof alfo
they have fome ftore. ‘They hold their mart at Cola on St, Peter’s day: what time the
captain of Wardhuyfe (that is refiant there for the king of Denmark, ) mutt be prefent,
or at leaft fend his deputy to -fet prices upon their {tock fifh, train oil, furs and other
commodities: as’alfo the Rufle Emperor’s cuftomer, or tribute taker, to receive his
euftom which is ever paid before any thing can be bought or fold. When their fifhing
is done, their manner is to draw their carbaffes or boats on fhore, and there to leave
them with the keel turned upwards, till the next {pring tide. Their travelto and fro
is upon fleds drawen by the olen deer; which they ufe to turn a grazing all the fum-
mer time in an_ifland called Kiidyn, (of a very good foil compared with other parts of
fhat country) and towards the winter time, when the fnow beginneth to fall, they
fetch them home again for the ufe of their fled. 2
VOL. I. : : K A LEARNED
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