EAST BOTHLAND. l65 



The Finlanders in East Bothland are 

 dressed very much hke the Laplanders, 

 and therefore agree with them in 2;eneral 

 appearance. Their dress is the same with 

 respect to their cap, their light-grey jacket, 

 their breeches reaching down to the feet, 

 their half-boots, their belt into which they 

 stick their knife, and the use of hooks and 

 eyes upon their clothes instead of buttons. 

 But they differ in not having a high collar, 

 and in wearing a shirt and neckcloth, as 

 well as in having their coat open before. 

 They stick nothing into their girdle but a 

 knife, though some people carry a key at 

 the end of it. Their breeches are tied 

 round the knees. 



At church I observed some men with a 

 girdle of black list, just as it was rent from 

 the cloth, wound two or three times round 

 the waist, which formed a contrast with 

 their grey jackets. The women however 

 dress in articles purchased from other coun- 

 tries, and make quite a different appcar- 

 ^ance from the Lapland females. 



