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A00 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
is fixed elfewhere, and taken down. Nor do the maritime Laplanders fix their abode
lefs compactly, fo that an abundance of furniture would be rather an impediment, than
ufe tohim. ‘There are no feats, no tables to be met with, in their habitations. A few
pans, kettles, bowls, and wooden difhes, which are made of birch; ftocks, flaggons of
tin, horn fpoons, and other vafes of this fort, of little value and account, make up the
whole of their houfehold furniture. Some have difhes of tin, and fome who are more
opulent fometimes poflefs a few filver fpoons. ‘The pots in ufe among the Laplanders
are without feet, and can conveniently be fo; for as in their habitations, when the
flooring confifts of mere branches of trees, ftrewed over the bafe ground, it could
eafily happen, that if thefe pot had feet, when placed on them, they could not ftand
firm. ‘The hooks, by which thefe kettles and pots are held over the fire, among the
mountaineers are iron, but among the inhabitants of the coaft, are made of wood.
It isa cuftom among them to keep falt in the {kin ofa pigeon. ‘The lamps, which fupply
the place of candles, in the huts of the maritime Laplanders, the mountaineers ule
none, contented with the light which the glowing fire furnifhes,) are fabricated from
wood, furrounded with a wooden circle. In thelamp itfelf is put a fhell, which in
Norwegian is called Harpe-Skicel, that is the Harp-Shell filled with oil, prefled from the
liver of. fifh, a certain marfhy weed, called in Lapland, Sinok, being ufed in the place
ofalink. For cradles they make ufe of a hollow trunk, (they call it themfelves
Gicedk.) Jn this the infant, wrapped in woollen cloaths and fkins, and faftened with a
twilted rope, going often round the cradle, lies. In that part of the trunk, which the
head of the infant occupies, is a certain bending, reprefenting a fmall arch, formed by °
a fkin, expanded over pieces of wood, to cover the head of the child init. From this
arch or bend, is a cord drawn along the cradle lengthwife, to which is annexed a
thread with beads, and with this the infant when loofened delights to play. This cradle
with the infant in it, the mother when withing to hufh it, ufually puts in her lap, when
goingo walk, on her back, and to ride in the vehicle or fledge.
Cuap. 1X.—Of the Rein-Deer, and their Management by the Laplanders.
THE rein-deer, couple about the end of autumn, but bring forth in fpring. The
elder among the male, and fuperior in powers among the herd, called in ‘the Lapland,
Aino-valdo, drives off competitors, unequal to him either in years or ftrength from the
view and contact of the females. It isan opinion with many, that the females of this animal
do not produce theiryoung, bus in the mo{ttempeftuous feafon, clouded with mifts of fnow
and hail, whence the {torm which in fpring after feed-time arifes is commonly called Rein-
Kalve-Réin, the time of bringing forth the young, in the Norwegian language. But
this opinion is erroneous and juitly exploded ; for it follows of courfe, and the order
of nature requires, that the rein-deer, like other dams, fhould neceflarily, when the
time comes, bring forth, nor can they bear the young beyond the appointed time,
whatever flate of temperature the air may be in. Some bear yearly, called Aldo,
others every other year, called Kodo, and fome are conftantly barren, which they call
Stainak.. Vhe young foon drop their horns when born, and inftantly from their birth,
take delight in the wonderful fwiftnefs of their legs, in which they are found in a fhor
time to equal their dams. Every dam diftinguifhes her own from the reft of the herd,
by the {cent alone.
‘The young rein-deer (f mean thofe, whofe dams are of an afh-colour, for the white
generate white,) when firft born are red, with a black line running along ie et
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