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368 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
The liver of fifh is boiled, and while boiling, is flirred with a ladle, until it changes
into a fort of a pulfe, which is mingled with black berries, called in the Norwegian Kraef-
Baer. Yoodof this fort is taken with fpoons, without bread, which they never, even
with the-fatteft foods make ufe of. ‘That the Laplanders fhould draw on them-
felves a variety of difeafes, from the frequent ule of fuch unwholefome meats, you would
eafily believe ; but that it is otherwife, the experience of many years, has enough and
more than enough confirmed ; that not only the Laplanders, who inhabit this trac of
country, but almoft all, are men of very great ftrength and very healthy.. The various
kinds of diforders, and whole battalions of fevers that range the world, are banifhed
from this place; for during the fpace of ten years, I have been in Finmark, I could
not find any trace of dyfentery, of leprofy, of malignant fever, and fuch contagious,
maladies. ‘The faid foods, fuch as dried, pounded fifh, dipped in oil prefled from the
liver of the fifh; dried heads and back Lones done on heated ftones, frefh fifh, boiled
with the marrow of feals, and dipped in oil preffed from the entrails of fifh ; the greater
codfifh (this the Norwegians call Hy/e or Ko/je) ftuffed with its liver and roafted, as alfo
the liver beat up with a fpattle and mingled with a kind of black berry, much in ufe
among the maritime Laplanders. ‘The mountain Laplanders contrive to get now and
then for themfelves a few fea-fifh frozen with the ice, which, by reafon of the extreme
cold, raging on the mountain tops for a very long time, can eafily preferve them fafe
through the whole winter. From fith of this kind, they acquire a food, which cannot
but be to them, fo much accuftomed to live on rein-deer, as delicious, as it is rare.
The maritime Laplander frequently, the mountaineer more rarely, make themfelves a
broth, from water and meal, with which they mingle tallow, to make it more fayory.
‘They ufually put the tallow into a certain entrail called in Lapland Doggie, which when
{tuffed, refembles along pudding. ‘The tallow itfelf, before it is mingled with the broth,
is beat with the inteftine, with which itis fo bound up. Befides pieces of frefh meat and
cheefe of the rein-deer, cut {mall, are put into this broth, to render the relifh more fa-
voury.
Another broth (Vuorra-maelle), is in ufe among the mountaineers made from water,
blood, pounded tallow, and meal, if in plenty. The blood, which makes up part of this
broth, is poured from the bladder of the rein-deer, where it is kept frozen by the cold
he whole of the winter. When the broth is ready, a piece of the frozen blood, with
part of the fkin, is cut from the bladder, and then put into akettle to be boiled; they
ufually dine the whole of the winter on broth of this kind, ‘They fometimes make
cakes, from a mixture of water and fine flour, which they bake on burning coals.
‘Vhere are certain foods prepared by the Laplanders, not fo much for the fake of
fatisfying the natural wants, as for the delight and gratification of the palate: for in-
{tance, they ferape or pare off, the white covering or bark, with which firs or birche
trees are furrounded, with a knife, which fome, in its frefh {tate, others when dried in
imoke, and dipped in oil preffed from the fat of the fifh, eat. In the place of apples,
nuts, and other productions of this kind, they eat, for theiramufement, Angelica, not
the root itfelf, but the herb, and that very frequently in its raw ftate, and fometimes
baked on coals, or boiled in milk, In the early fpring, when the {now’is giving way,
they ufually gather berries, which, during the winter, were covered with fnow, for
ule.
I myfelf have feen boys chewing the thick weed, which the fea throws upon the fhore,
which is not unlike a thong of leather or a whip. ‘The Laplandersare very eager after
tobacco, which they one time chew, at another lighted, they draw in fmoke, through
a pipe of clay. While chewing, they {pit out alfo into the hollow of the hand, and t
10 fpittle,
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