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399 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
He who has obtained the inward or more honovred part of the habitation in the
hut, on the arrival of a miffionary, comes out, together with his family, and moft wil-
lingly gives up the place to his welcomed cueft, as long as he is pleafed to ftay with him.
And though two families fhould occupy the hut at once, yet the fire-place, and certain
portions of the place, fuch as are next to the door, adapted for the keeping of wood,
as well as thofe oppofite the fire-place, adapted for the purpole of keeping various do-
meftic furniture are in common ufe with both.
This nation, which is accounted by many very ignorant of the world, as favage, and
as brought under no cultivation of humanity, yet make ufe of the fame hut and fire-fide
with fo much friendfhip and harmony, that no conteft, no brawl, except very rarely, is
ever excited among them; when yet it is fully and abundantly proved, that numbers,
who boait, I know not, a degree of refinement and elegance of manners, and from
whom, on that account, you would reafonably expect better manners, cannot inhabit
one and the fame city and neighbourhood without difcord and contefts.
The maritime Laplander ftables his lambs and calves in the fame hut with himfelf,
but apart and in inclofures. How ftrong the ftench of fuch a fordid lodging mutt be
to the guelts, is eafy to be conjectured. The hut of the maritime Laplander is built
with a yard, on the one fide of which is the hut itfelf inhabited by the family, on the
other is the ftall for cattle, hence men as well as beafts muft come by the fame door
into their habitation.
The hut inhabited by the family, the cow houfe, and in the middle between each, the
yard, are under one roof, which is firft covered with the bark of the birch tree, then
with turf from the ground to the top; hence the appearance of the outfide is that of a
lengthened and gently declining hill. At fome paces from the hut is built a depofitory
called in Lapland Loaave. ~A building of this kind confifts of certain beams fet up-
right, over which others are placed acrofs, with the branches of various trees in the
fhape of a houfe, without a roof.. To this building the Laplanders bring hay and bind
it together fo clofely, that each of the poles are covered, except the ends that jut out
above the hay; fo that you would fay that the whole mais was nothing elfe than three
walls of hay. Hay piled and bound up in this manner is kept under the open air
during the whole winter very found from the injury of 1ain which very rarely infefts
this quarter of the world in winter. ‘The outfide of the hay rick can be injured indeed
by {now, but the hay will neverthelefs be unhurt within. Between the rafters where
the arch is bent, the Laplanders hang their cloaths. ‘The fpace, above the arch, be-
tween the three walls of hay juft mentioned, is called in Lapland fe, which word
properly means the bofom. Here it is ufual to lay up the {kins of the rein-deer,
bafkets, and other veflels of this fort: here fometimes the wearied Laplander takes up
his reft by night. The maritime Laplanders, as often as they are in want of food for
their cattle, {trip the trees of their bark, and give it to them to eat: they carry home
too the branches of trees as provender. When atree is felled and its branches cut off
the trunk is put afide, and hence as it happened to myfelf, not feldom, when you come
into thofe parts, where the trunks of this kind lie along the hills and plains, they will
appear to you, as fo many putrified carcafles. ‘The herds of the Laplanders feed be-
fides on certain roots, fome of which have the figure of a bird, fome another, &c., &c.
Befides Kay, the ufual and ordinary fodder, there is another food, fo to exprefs myfelf,
prepared for cattle; it is exraéted from the heads and bones of fifh, from {traw, fea-
weed and from the fediment under the oil, which is taken from the entrails of fifh ;
which ingredients, when put together, are thrown into a kettle to be boiled, and when
done, are given in a fuflicient quantity to cows, as a food they are very fond of. The
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