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41D ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
done, and as the Arabs and Tartars do to this day, are eyer changeable, vagrant, and
not contented with the fame fituation and place long together. The mountain Lap-
lander takes himfelf, together with his whole family, and the herd of rein-deer, to the
coa{ts and borders that lie neareft the fea in the midft of fummer.
But when the autumn is coming on, he retreats again with his cot, his reia-deer and
family to the mountains, flowly and by degrees; for getting on his way, and having
moved {carcely the diitance of a mile, he ftops, and going on the next day, he only ad-
vances one mile, which he does every day, until the winter, now at hand, after pailing
the creeks a diftance of five, fix, or about feven miles from the fea, he has penetrated
to the very confines of Swedifh Lapland; where when he has at length arrived, he ftops,
but not foat to prevent his moving with his cot and rein-deer, from one wood and hill
to another, as neceflity fhould require.
On the approach of fpring, he returnsin the fame manner to the fea coaft, but flowly
-and as juft faid, ftep by ftep, until he has arrived with his family in that place, where
he has determined to remain the whole fummer.
On the fides of the roads, through which he is to travel, he takes care, that a number
of little offices fhould be built, in which he puts up his provifions and furniture, which,
during winter, he draws out, when he pleafes, and when it is neceflary, for himfelf and
his family. When the mountain Laplander is preparing for a journey from the coaft to
the mountains, at the end of the autumn, he ufually kills fome rein-deer, at this feafon,
which are very well fattened, and lays up in his houfe, which he has for the purpofe,
the meat, in order, that on his return in fpring, by the fame road, he may have pro-
vifion for himfelf and his family.
The mountain Laplander in the fpring, fummer, and autumn feafons of the year,
when travelling over the plains, now clear and bare from the {nows, with his family and
rein-deer, travels on foot, having put the cot with its timber and furniture, and other
baggage on the backs of the rein-deer ; if the mother happens to have an infant at her
brealt, fhe carries it on her back, put up ina hollow piece of wood, called in Lapland,
Giced’k, which I have deferibed above in Chapter VIII. on the furniture of the
Laplanders. The herds of rein-deer, on their way, as at other times, are managed by
their keepers. ,
The mountain Laplander travelling in the winter feafon through plains covered with
thick fnows, before he begins his journey takes down his cot, the planks of which this
building chiefly confifts, the covering drawn over it, the timber of the floor ; the fire
ftones, he takes, with him, with the view, leit the want of materials of this kind fhould
render the place into which he is difpofed to emigrate, incommodious to him; but he
ufually flings away the branches with which the floor is covered, cutting down, in the
place he erects his cot, new onesin their place.
The cot, with all its materials, is put into a fingle fledge called in Lapland, Guatte-
Kierres, which by the help of a fingle rein-deer, an animal neither fo great nor robuit, is
drawn through the thickeft fnows, whence it is eafy to be inferred that the cot itfelf,
with all its furniture, is of {mall fize and confideration.
The mother puts the infant, before the hufband enters on his journey, into a hollow
piece of wood, Giced’k, mentioned before, flightly covered with woollen cloaths, yet
with that precaution, that a fmall aperture may be open before the mouth of a child,
by which he may breathe freely. :
Their own baggage is carried alfo in the fledge. The hufband himfelf goes on firft,
and leads on the troop. ‘The mother manages the fledge, in which the infant is, who,
I fhould
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