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ACCOUNT OF BANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS. 413
with a border from the fkin of the otter; but the cap of this youth was ornamented
with a fringe of filk velvet, of black colour, with a facing of the fame, illuftrated with
the name of Chriftian VI. in filver ornament. But this profperity was not durable ; for
on the approaching autumn, and the fall of the year, he fell fick, and died on the begin-
ning of the following year. The caufe of fo fudden a death without doubt is to be
fought for in fo fudden a change of air and food; for he who at home was ufed to drink
of one f{pring, and that cold, and fubfift on the congealed milk of rein-deer and fuch
food, now regaled abroad with wine and dainties, could not bear this unufual and fudden
change without danger of life ; according to that very melancholy faying, every fudden
change is hurtful. ‘The body was honourably interred at the King’s expence, and the
cloaths his Majeity ordered him to be drefled in were fent to Lapland to his parents,
that under their wretchednefs they fhould recall the memory and once happy condition
of their deceafed fon to their confolation.
When, as above mentioned, I had to pay my profound rejpects to his Majefty, at the
time he happened to come to the gulf of Aalefund, in the province of Sundmoér, I had
arrived there, for the purpofe of marrying Sophia Aletha Ruberg, three weeks ‘before
his Majefty. 1 had at that time in my family a Lapland young man, of the name of
Peter Jonfen, who had fo recommended himfelf to the attention of the high admiral,
Rofenpalm, that he was difpofed to take him to Copenhagen and put him among his
rowers: and as the youth had capacity, his highnefs took care that he fhould be taught
writing and arithmetic; when taught, he fent him to the Eaft Indies, to acquire under a
fkilful feaman, a knowledge of nautical affairs; but returning from India he fell fick
and died at Copenhagen.
Cuap. XII.—Of the wild Bea/ts and Birds of Finmark, and of the Modes of catching them,
ufed among the Laplanders.
AS many writers, verfed in natural hiftory, have long fince employed their time as
diligently as fuccelsfully in inveftigating and defcribing the properties of the nature of
quadrupeds and birds, it would appear fuperfluous here to refume the fame fubjec.
Poftponing that confideration, I propofed to mention fome of the modes and arts which
the Laplanders ufe in taking them, and alfo fomething of the fingular qualities of certain
quadrupeds and birds, and other matters belonging to them.
Mott of the kinds of quadrupeds, of a wild nature, which are found up and down
through Norway, Finmark produces in no fmall number; which advantage of their
country the Laplanders know well to turi to their own ufe. Butit is to be parti-
cularly noticed, that the inhabitants of the mountains, abounding above the reft ina
great quantity of rein-deer, have very feldom leifure for the chace, nor is there need
they fhould, when they are fo very much occupied in watching and. pafturing their’
herds ; and they can well forego this laborious and unquiet mode of life, furnifhed as
they are befides with an abundance of thofe things they have ufe of.
Finmark both produces and breeds a great number of wild rein-deer: thefe, called
Godde by the inhabitants, by far exceed the tame ones in the bulk of the body. ‘The
Laplander going out to hunt, in fummer and autumn, the rein-deer, takes with him his
well-{cented and fagacious dog, whom, as a guide that will not deceive him, he follows,
hunting by the fcent, until he comes up in view to the wild rein-deer. On the fight
of the animal he muzzles the dog, left he fhould frighten him by barking. Should
the bullets he ufes, when firft fhot, not kiil him, but only mortally wound him, he drives
the dog, now freed from the chain and muzzle, on him as he flies, who {topping now
and then in his fpeed, in order to defend himfelf with his horns again{t the dog, 1s fhot
at and killed by the Laplander, who makes good ufe of the opportunity. During au-
tumn,
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