l68 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



ing in summer time, far from the places 

 where this moss abounds and where they 

 reside in winter. • 



These people eat a great deal of flesh 

 meat. A family of four persons consumes 

 at least one reindeer every week, from the 

 time when the preserved fish becomes too 

 stale to be eatable, till the return of the 

 fishing season. Surely they might manage 

 better in this respect than they do. When 

 the Laplander in summer catches no fish, 

 he must either starve, or kill some of his 

 reindeer. He has no other cattle or do- 

 mestic animals than the reindeer and the 

 dog : the latter cannot serve him for food 

 in his rambling excursions ; but whenever 

 he can kill Gluttons [Mustela Gido), Squir- 

 rels, Martins, Bears or Beavers, in short 

 any thing except Foxes and Wolves, he 

 devours them. His whole sustenance is 

 derived from the flesh of these animals, 

 wild fowl, and the reindeer, with fish and 

 water. A Laplander, therefore, whose fa- 

 mily consists of four persons, including 



