LULEAN LAPLAND. 87 



A bandage is tied round the bow while 

 making, to hold the two parts the more 

 firmly together. 



When these people undertake a short 

 journey only, they carry no bag for pro- 

 visions, the latter being stored between 

 their outer and inner jackets, which are 

 always bound with a girdle, being wide, 

 and formed of numerous folds, botli above 

 and below it. 



The Purple Willow-herb, or Epilohium 

 {august if oUum ?) made the fields at this 

 time very beautiful. The Golden-rod [So- 

 lidago Virgaureci) was likewise here in blos- 

 som, though not yet upon the alps, where 

 it flowers later. 



I have never yet seen any animal swim 

 so light as the reindeer. During the dog- 

 days the herds of reindeer, belonging to 

 the inhabitants of the woody parts of Lap- 

 land, are very badly off for want of snow, 

 •vvith which those animals refresh themselves 

 in hot weather upon the alps. Hence they 

 constitute a more valuable and thriving pro- 



