170 LYCKSELE LAPLAND. 



The Laplanders dye their wool red 

 chiefly with the Blood-root or Tormentil, 

 Torment ilia erect a, A red colour is given 

 to their leather by means of fir bark. The 

 men w^ear a kind of trowsers which reach 

 down to their feet, and are tied round their 

 half boots, so as to keep out water. They 

 wear no shirt nor stockino;s. The waist- 

 band is fastened by thongs, not buttons. 



As to the diseases of these people, I was 

 informed here that fevers are very rare in- 

 deed, and that the smallpox is also of un- 

 frequent occurrence. Hence, when it does 

 come, many old people with grey hairs fall 

 a sacrifice to the latter disorder, which 

 however is not widely communicated, any 

 more than fever, because of the very thin 

 population. Of intermittent fever I met 

 with only one example, and of calculus 

 another. They cure a cough by sulphur 

 laid on the lighted fungus which serves 

 them as tinder, or on the fire, the smoke 

 of which inhaled into the lungs is esteemed 



