LULEAN LAPLAND. Ill 



pearing externally. After the skin is flayed 

 off, the blood is found coagulated in the 

 thorax, from whence it is extracted, and 

 bruised into a soft mass. With this the 

 poorer sort of people make a kind of soup, 

 by boiling along with it the brains of the 

 animal, which the rich do not eat. The 

 testicles are never eaten by any sort of 

 people. The penis serves to make a thong 

 to draw the sledges. 



Such of the Laplanders as inhabit the 

 forests go to the alps at midsummer and 

 return about St. Laurence's day (Au- 

 gust 10th) ; and the mountain Laplanders 

 descend into the lower country between the 

 first of November and Christmas, and go 

 back again about Lady-day. 



All kinds of clothing made of skins 

 are sewed with sinews of animals, as be- 

 fore described ; but those of w^almal cloth, 

 with hempen thread purchased from the 

 neighbouring countries. 



