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short stature, and odd shape, with countenances 

 as savage as their manners are barbarous. Tbe 

 visage, in these countries, is large and broad, the 

 nose flat and short, the eyes of a yellowish-brown, 

 inclining to blackness, the eye-lids draw r n towards 

 the temples, the cheek-bones extremely high, the 

 mouth very large, the lips thick and turned out- 

 wards, the voice thin and squeaking, the head 

 large, the hair black and straight, the colour of 

 the skin of a dark greyish.* They are short in 

 stature, the generality not being above four feet 

 high, and the tallest not above five. Among all 

 these nations the women are as deformed as the 

 men, and resemble them so nearly, that one can- 

 not at first distinguish the sexes among them. 



These nations not only resemble each other in 

 their deformity, their dwarfishness, the colour of 

 their hair and eyes, but they have, in a great mea- 

 sure, the same inclinations and the same manners, 

 being all equally rude, superstitious, and stupid. 

 The Danish Laplanders have a large black cat, to 

 which they communicate their secrets, and con- 

 sult in all their affairs. Among the Swedish Lap- 

 landers, there is in every family a drum for con- 

 sulting the devil ; and although these nations are 

 robust and nimble, yet they are so cowardly that 

 they never can be brought into the field. Gusta- 

 vus Adolphus attempted to form a regiment of 

 Laplanders, but he found it impossible to accom- 

 plish his design ; for it should seem that they can 

 live only in their own country, and in their own 



* Crantz. 



