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white walmal cloth, (see p. 137,) without 

 any hning, and their jacket is ornamented 

 with a high blue collar with a brown edge, 

 the whole collar being stitched over and 

 over with thread. The cloth for this part 

 costs a dollar, copper money, extraordinary 

 for every ell, on account of the brown edge. 

 Eight ells make a jacket, so that the whole 

 comes to as much as a small garment of 

 reindeer skin. 



They complained to me about the sale 

 of their manufactures, which they are now 

 obliged to dispose of at too low a rate. 

 They would willingly allow twenty per cent, 

 profit to the merchants of Stockholm, giving 

 them a preference that they might be 

 enabled to pay the duties, nor would they 

 then listen to applications from any other 

 quarter. 



The Lapland women are accustomed to 

 sew all the clothes and shoes, and to cook 

 all such articles of food as are made of 

 milk ; but the men dress the meat, fish, 

 and fowl. If the housewife happens not 



