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A16 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
gate, and directly oppofite to them, the carcafe that is killed and juft left behind him.
Near each aperture or gate of the inclofure are laid various bows, f{tretched and fur-
nifhed with arrows, the height of the bear, as well as can be conjectured as accurately
obferved, with this view, that they may direétly ftrike to the heart of the wild beatt,
entering by the door of the inclofure to his prey. A rope is extended near the ground,
on the touch of which the arrows are fhot. The bear returning to his prey, en-
»ters the inclofure by one of the faid gates, and treading on the ropes, falls, pierced
by the atrows, provided they ftrike with exa€tnels. That the faid inclofure is fur-
nifhed with two doors they aflign as a reafon, partly, that a free paflage fhould be open
to the bear, on each fide, when he returns to his prey, partly, that if by chance he
fhould efcape the arrows placed at the gate by which he entered, he fhould more
certainly fall by thofe which were placed at the other. ‘They alfo extend a rope with
drawn bows on each fide in ambufh, on the walks and paths where they know bears
ftray up and down, with the view that, treading on the rope, and the arrows being fhot,
he may receive a death wound. The Laplander makes ufe of the afliftance of dogs in
the hunting of bears, as well as rein-deer. He thoroughly rubs his limbs, whén they
exceedingly ache, with bear’s greafe, whichis laid up; the inteftines of the animal that
is killed are anxioufly preferved, with this due obfervance, that the fat of the male bear
may be ufed for the cure of the males alone, and what is taken from the fhe bear for the
females.
The lynxes, called by the Norwegians Gowpe, are by the Laplanders Albas, are not to
be met with in Finmark ; this defe&t however is fupplied by the great number of wolves,
Of thefe, fome are yellow, fome of a colour inclining to white. ‘his wild animal, ac-
cording to the different dialects of places, gets different names, fuch as, Barg, Graabeen,
Sfrob, Sfrog ; the Laplanders call them, Kumpi, Stalpe, Seibek, Gaine, Olgobutzh. ‘The
Laplanders moft ufually kill wolves with guns; they take them alfo with a certain iron
machine, of which we fhall below givea defcription. ‘The moft ufeful of thefe traps
hold a wild beaft fo clofely, that fhould they only catch the nail, yet they can retain him,
which, from the following account will be manifeft: A certain mountain Laplander
from the bay of Porfanger, called Andrew Jonfen, once caught a wolf in one of thofe
approved machines, which, though only held by a fingle nail, and running befides with
fo great {wiftnefs, with the machine that he carried with him, that the Laplander, though
carried by his rein-deer, a very fwift animal, could fcarcely overtake him as he fled,
yet fo clofely did the trap hold him, that he could by no means extricate himfelf and
efcape. But, whatever more of the nature and habits of this animal could be mentioned,
occurs in Chapter IX. on the rein-deer. Wolf-fkins are ftretched on wooden tenter-
hooks, called in Lapland Ratzh. :
Foxes are found in great numbers through Finmark. Of thefe many are red, called
in Lapland Ruop/ok ; others are red marked with a black crofs, whence they are called
by the Norwegians Kors-Roeve, that is, red foxes, but by the Laplanders Raude:
others are altogether black; others black, with the extremity of the hair on the back
fhining with a colour like filver. Foxes of this fort, called in Lapland Zhyaeppok,
whofe fkin, as being the beft of their kind, were referved under the injunétion of an
edict, publifhed on the 25th of May, in the 52d year of the 17th century, for his Majefty
alone; they are now fold without reftraint to the Mufcovites, who make garments of
them for men filling the higheft dignities. ‘The Ruffian women of inferior condition,
are faid to wear c aps or hoods trimmed with red fox-fkins. Befides the faid {pecies,
there are white foxes found in Finmark, with black ears and legs, and black hairs in
their tail. hefe !n Lapland are-called Vjelgok, and are very rarely met with. There are
6 befides
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