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8o Of the Houjes of the Laplanders.
Cap. 3. adds alSo skins , and theSe were the houSes Lomeniut Comes Saw, and
defcribes in his Itinerary to be made of long poles and barks of trees. Sam.
Rheen defcribes the tents of the Wood-Laplanders to be made of boards with
Six fides or walls, covered with boughs of Firr,cr Pine-trees, Sometimes
with the barks, and Sometimes only with turfFs. Wtxionius increases the
number of fides, and Saies that they were ortogons, Somewhat broader
towards the bottom, and five ells high, and especially thoSe tents of the
Ki-mtnfes. Olaus Petri tells us the Same of the Pithenfes. Now theSe Tents
they do not pulldown or carry with them, but leave them in the Same place,
only when tney come again they add new boughs, &c. where they were
decayed, and to fit them for their ufe. Befides thefe two forts of Tents,
Olaus Magnus reckons up another, for in this, Lib. 4. Cap. 2. he Saies part
of them place their Tents in trees that grow in a Square figure , least in the
fenny Countries they Should be choakedwith the great Snows, or devoured
by the wild beasts, which come together in great troops. What he means
by trees that grow in a Square figure I cannot tell, but 1 SuppoSe lie intends
only that they did uSe to ereft their Tents between 4 trees which grew So,
that each of them might be the corner prop , of the four fquare Shed, but
this fort is to us quite unknow. Tacitus faies the Fenni ufed to dwell among
a company of boughs, and perhaps that gave occasion to our Author to talk
thus. He hath alfo got a 4th fort which he could have no where elfe but
from Ziegler us, for Ziegler us had called them Amaxobios, from whence
Olaus Magnus Saies they dwelt in Waines and Carts; and therefore Olaus
induced by this word of Zieglerus, thought the Laplanders had bin fuch. But
this is quitefalfe, for Waggons and Carts were utterly unknown to the
Laplanders, for whom it was impoSTible to ufe them , by reafon of the
Slip-perinefs of the Ice, and depth of their fnows. Neither was it indeed in that
fenfe that Zieglerus calls them Amaxiobios, but becaufe they wandred up
and down like the Amaxobii, who are a known Nation of the Scythians.
There remains therefore only thefe two forts of Sheds, which I have
mentioned, for the s,h , w hich Paulas ^ovius reckons, was either upon fudden
occasions, or ufed only by thofe that were under the dominion cf the
Mof-covites: the words of this Author are , " Thefe People lie in caves filled
’’ with dried leaves, or in trunks bf trees made hollow either by fire cr age.
But in both our forementioned forts , things are fo ordered that every Tent
had two doors, one, aforedoor, and the other, a backward ; the former
bigger and more ordinarily ufed , the latter lefs, through which they ufe to
bring in their provisions, and efpecially the prey they took in hunting, alfo
Birds, Beasts, Fifties, which it Was unlavvfull for to bring in at the foredoor.
Thefe are the two doors with "the ufe of both , efpecially the back-door,
through which it was unlawfull for any woman to pafs , becaufe, as I faid
before, women were forbidden to go into the back part of the Tent, the
reafon of which I think to be partly this, becaufe in that part they placed
Thor and facrificed to him , and partly this, becaufe it was efteemed an ill
omen fox a hunter to meet a woman. And hither may we refer what
Zieglerus faies of that door, that it was unlawfull for the Woman to go out
of the door of the Tent that day her husband was gone a hunting, which
cannot be understood of any door but the back-door, the ufe cf whieh was
not only that day. but alwaies forbid women. The Laplanders have no
Chambers
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