ARMT. 87 



Artillery (with 176 cannon) .... 5,050 



Engineers . . . . . . .1,180 



Train ...... 4,676 



Total . . . 124,756 



Independent, however, of these troops, they have an- 

 other corps the numerical strength of which I am unable to 

 state, which in the event of an invasion would probably 

 be of material assistance, but who belong neither to the 

 contingent nor the reserve. Every young man in Sweden 

 from twenty-one to twenty- five is liable to be called upon 

 to serve as a soldier in case of invasion. He is drilled for 

 two years, and for a short time on the parade-ground with 

 the other soldiers. 



The regular land- soldiers do not live in barracks (except 

 the artillery in Gothenburg and the guards in Stock- 

 holm), but they are stationed all over the country. Every 

 estate or hemman in Sweden, of which there are about 

 65,000, must support a soldier, i. e. } find him a house and 

 little piece of land, do his ploughing for him, and pay him 

 a certain amount of rye yearly. Some few estates are called 

 " Satterier," and these, having been granted in former times 

 to the possessors free of all taxes, have no soldiers to sup- 

 port. And in some few other cases a ' ' hemman," instead 

 of keeping a house and land for a soldier, pays a yearly tax 

 of 90 rqr. to the crown. These soldiers are exercised or 

 drilled once in every year, and this is the only time they can 

 be said to be on soldier's duty, when they meet and camp 

 out on some large plain. Most of them are married, live at 

 home, and do labouring work for the rest of the year, 

 except some few who are stationed in castles throughout 

 the land. 



By this plan the Swedish army is kept up at a small 

 expense to the crown. All their arms and uniforms, when 

 they are not on drill, are deposited here and there in large 

 magazines. 



The officers are also scattered over the country, many of 

 them living on farms granted to them by government. 



