132 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



Lapland. Their soil is not wounded by 

 the plough, nor is the iron din of arms to 

 be heard ; neither have mankind found 

 their way to the bowels of the earth, nor 

 do they engage in wars to define its boun- 

 daries. They perpetually change their 

 abode, live in tents, and follow a pastoral 

 life, just like the patriarchs of old. 



Among these people the men are em- 

 ployed in the business of cookery, so that 

 the master of a family has no occasion to 

 speak a good word to his wife, when he 

 wishes to give a hospitable entertainment 

 to his guests*. 



The dress of these Laplanders is as 

 follows. 



On the head they wear a small cap, like 

 those used at my native place of Stenbro- 

 hult, made with eight seams covered with 



* When Linnaeus wrote this sentence, he seems to 

 have had a presentiment of his own matrimonial fate, 

 just the reverse in this very point of that he was de- 

 scribing. 



