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396 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
is turned and made into cheefe, confifts of a whey in which the paunch of an afs, or
the entrails of a rein-deer, have for fome time lain.
Butter is alfo made from the milk of the rein-deer, of a white colour, but not fo
yich and well tafted as what is made of cow’s; the reafon is obvious, that this i is made
from cream, but that from mere frefh milk.
The maritime Laplanders whofe herds confift of oxen, fheep, and goats, make butter
from cream alone. ‘The Lapland woman, occupied in the making of butter, fits on the
ground, holding a bow! in her lap filled with cream, which fhe ftirs and works with her
finger till it thickens into butter.
The mountain Laplander fubfifts on the flefh of the rein-deer frefh killed through
the whole winter ; hence not a week pafles during the feafon in which he does not
kill one or two, if the family is numerous. ‘The flefh is cut up into pieces, which, un-
wafhed and covered with dirt, is put into a kettle. It is drefled at a flow fire, put to
the one fide of the kettle that the fat which fticks into the flefh fhould be the better
extracted. From the meat, when fufficiently boiled, the oil which lies above is fkimmed
off with a ladle, put into a veffel fprinkled with falt is put afide. Then each piece
taken rough from the kettle, is put on a difh, while the broth is left to ftand. When
put on the table, the father of the family, with his whole houfehold, fits down round
the dif, which is of a circular fhape. Whilft eating, they dip the bits in the oil
{queezed from the fat of the flefh, which is put in a veflel; thefe they take not with
a fork, but with the point of a knife. In the kettle, anere the broth remains, when
the meat is taken out, is a little ladle, with which they fup a little of the broth while
they are eating. ‘This broth confifts of mere water, without any mixture of flour, or
fuch like, and is well tafted from the meat boiled in it alone. It is faid by fome, that
the Laplanders feed on raw flefh, but in all contradiction of truth. The mountain Lap-
lander, befides the flefh, boils the legs of the rein-deer, frefh killed, and, when fuffi-
ciently boiled, takes them out for the marrow. A difh of this kind is among this
people of any price; certain it is, it is ufually fet before a miffionary as fomething pe-
culiar and delicate. The entrails of the rein-deer, which are not boiled in the fame
kettle with the meat, are food yet for the Laplanders. So economically does he con-
vert every part of the animal he has killed, to his ufe, that not even the bones, in
which any fat or marrow may be left, are given to the dogs, but, after he has picked
them, he breaks them, and takes care to extract whatever fat may remain, by boiling.
While he is engaged in this, he is feated on the ground, and on the rein-deer’s hide,
which is fpread out on his lap, he breaks the bones with a mallet ; when brokem, boils
them, until whatever fat be in them is extracted. The lungs are given to the dogs 5
for the mountain Laplander, when a rein-deer is killed, ufually diftributes among the
dogs, which he muft have to guard and prote& the rein-deer. 1 knew a Laplander
who lived on the mountains, named Oluf Nielfen, (that is, fon »f Nicolas) Aujevare,
who kept eight of thefe watch dogs. But they can bear hunger to an incredible de-
gree; for, with the exception of thefe lungs juft mentioned, the miferable famifhed _
animals get nothing befides a little broth made from the blood of the animal, called in
Lapland Vuorrameaelle, which is given to them in the morning, and of the meat.in the
evening, to be confumed.
The Laplanders, as was faid, not only boil the meat but roaft it on a fpike, the end
of which is faftened in the ground. It is to be obferved, that the Laplanders are very
fond of every thing roafted, efpecially of meats. The roatted, of which they are fo
fond, is not put on {pits, but {pikes, nor bafted with butter. From what is faid on this
fabiett, it is plain, that the fleth of the rein-deer, freth, is the ordinary food of the Lap-
lander,
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