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ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS. 397
Jander, and that he makes little or no ufe of it falted. For it would be unneceflary to
fprinkle with falt the flefh of animals‘which are killed in autumn and winter, (for in the
fummer feafon the Laplanders rarely kill,)as they are belt preferved by that very ex-
treme of cold itfelf.
Yet it fometimes happens, that the mountain Laplander through repetition and lan-
guor of the conftant ule of frefh meat, takes care to fmoke, for the fake of variety, fome
ribs of the rein-deer, and thofe when raw, which he firft ftabs with the point of a
knife, that the {moke may more eafily find entrance. And, when this is done, he puts
them up between the poles and rafters, of which, in Chapter V., fpeaking of the habi-
tations of Laplanders, we treated. Befides the meat of the rein-deer, which the moun-
tain Laplanders, and the beef and mutton, which the maritime ones ufe, the flefh of
bears, foxes, otters, feals, and fuch animals are eatable among them, with the exception
of the fwine, which is interdiéted to the Laplander.
The Laplanders engaged in fifhing for falmon, cut from this fifh, as the Norwegians
do from the larger flounder, long flices, called in Norwegian Ravreffling ; but, though
the falmon is a nobler fifh than the greater flounder, yet the picces of this are better
tafted. ‘The falmon is cut from head to tail into two equal parts, a variety of cuts
being indented in its flefh, and then hung up, to dry in the fun.
The Laplanders live on fifh that is dried and pounded without any preparatory dref-
fing, dipping each bit into oil fqueezed from the entrails of the fifh, (oil of this kind is
called in Norwegian, Jran,) and what you may be more furprized at, the mother
gives this food to the infaut at her breaft. She chews a bit before dipped in oil, and,
when chewed, puts it in the mouth of the infant, who is thus accuftomed to this oil
from his cradle. And hence it is, that oil of this kind, to the Laplander, whofe natural
appetite is changed, is more agreeable and pleafing than butter. But thouch it is true,
“that the Laplanders are much delighted with this oil, yet it is by no means true, which
fome author afferts with fufficient confidence, that every Laplander confumes a pint and
a half of this very unctuous and rancid liquor at each meal. Nor have I ever obferved,
what yet the fame author ferioufly contends, that every woman, when brought to bed,
drinks in like manner a pint and a half of this faid oil, for increafing her ftrength. I do
not yet doubt, that a {mall portion is given to a woman when near her time, which is
thought to affift and ftrengthen her when in labour.
Thofe who are in diftrefs, through want of dried fifh, put on the embers the dried
heads and backs of fifh, in which there is any meat left, and when done, eat it.
Dried fifh, the broiled heads and back-bones of them, the marrow of feals, cut into
long pieces, which, together with the fifh, before put into the pot to be boiled, were fome
little time put up in the bladder of a feal, that the fat might be the eafier extracted ; all
thefe collected and mixed, they ufually boil together. A half hour at leaft is confumed
in the boiling a fifth, which, when boiled fufficiently with the other ingredients juft men-
tioned, areeatentogether. They dip the fifhin a certain liquor, not unlike common
oil, which exfudates from the marrow in the bladder of the feal.
And as it is cuftomary with the Laplanders to roaft their flefh by a fire, on fpikes, fo
do they drefs fifh in the {ame manner ; for inftance, in the drefling of the greater codfifh
they ufe this method: from this fifh, when frefh taken, they firft take out the entrails,
then the liver, and ftuff it, and then put it on the fpit to roaft by the fire, and, feated on
the ground, they place a difh in their lap, and cut out the belly; and, fince more time
is taken up in dreffing the liver than in roafting the fifh, they put it pounded and not
yet fully roafted, on a heated ftone, that all rawnefs being removed by thefe means from
it, they may eat it with the reft of the fifh without any illnefs, -
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