102 LULEAN LAPLAND. 



It is worthy of notice that the Lap- 

 landers use no ahnanack, but in its stead 

 only a kind of instrument like the ancient 

 runic calendar of the Goths, composed of 

 seven small sj)linters or l)oards. They 

 ha\ e indeed names to mark some periods, 

 as already mentioned p. 62 ; but they do 

 not, like us, compute time by the month, 

 but by the course of their various holidays. 

 They have also a name for every '.veek. 

 They are unable to tell when an eclipse of 

 the sun or moon is to be expected. The 

 year begins, by their reckoning, on the 

 Friday before Christmas day. 



The people in the part of the country 

 where I was now travelling wear, in summer- 

 time, either a coat of walmal cloth next the 

 skin, or no coat at all, only a lappmudd as 

 they call it, (or garment of reindeer skin,) 

 stripped of its hair. 



the back, it urges him to greater speed. The overturn 

 of the sledge, where the road is uneven, is prevented 

 by a slick, which serves, like the oar or paddle ot a 

 boat, to guide its course." 



