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tress of the family would be censured as 

 a bad manager, uhen the guests returned 

 to their own homes. 



The mode of their entertainment is as 

 follows. 



First, if the stranger arrives before their 

 meat is set over the fire to boil, thej pre- 

 sent him either with iced milk, or with 

 some kind of berries mixed with milk, or 

 perhaps with cheese, or with kappi, (see 

 voL\.p.28l.) Afterwards, when the meat is 

 sufficiently cooked, and they have taken 

 it out of the pot, they put into the water, 

 in which it has been boiled, slices of cheese 

 made of reindeer milk. This is a testimony 

 of hospitality, and that they are disposed 

 to make their guest as welcome as they 

 can. They next serve up some of their 

 dry or solid preparations of milk. 



The marriages of the Laplanders are 

 conducted in the following manner. (This 

 subject was treated in vol. i. p. 276, like 

 Sterne's " history of the king of Bohemia 

 and his seven castles,'' no doubt to the 

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