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hole, through which the Wire is to be drawn. And with this 
wire the Women embroider their Cloaths, as we do ours with 
Gold and Silver-wire. As for their Fijhmg^ihdit is a work com- 
mon to their Men and Women. What is fubjoyn'd to thefe 
things,about their Paftimes, Converfation and Marriages,as alfo 
of the Travel of their Women with Child , and the breeding 
of their Children, may be fitter to read in the Author himfelf^ 
than here. 
Te^thlfi He fpeaks of the Difeafes of the Laplanders 5 con* 
cerning which he obferves, that they know of no burning 
Feavers, nor Plague, and live, many of them, to 80, 90, and 
fome to above 1 00 years of age, remaining in that age vigorous 
and able codo their work, and to travel any whither $ yet they 
are fubjed to weaknefs of their Eyes, becaufe they much live 
in fmoak ; as alfo to Pleurifies, Inflammation of the Lungs,and 
GiddinelTes ; and now and then to thefmallPox. Agamftall 
their inward Difeafes they ufe the root of a certain M^, they 
call and in want of that, theftalk oi ^/ngelica^ making a 
decoftion thereof in the whey of Rheen-Dear-Milk. Finding 
any pain in their Limbs,they apply fome ignited matter (as the 
fungHs adhering to JS^'^fi^-trees) to the place afFeded, to blifter 
itj and thereby to draw out the ill humours , and fo to ai!ay the 
pain. Their wounds they cure with no other unguent but the 
RoGn of Trees. If thefroft do benumor niortifieany limb^ 
they prefently run a red-hot iron into a Khecfi-Dear Cheefe^ 
and with the oyl dropping thence they anoint the frozen part, 
with admirable fuccefs. The fame Cheefe boiled in Milk cu- 
reth their Cough, and other diftempers of the Lungs, the 
decoflion being drunk hot; which is alfo good, it feems, 
for their ftomacks, to preferve them from being vitiated by 
the conftant drinking of water. As to their Burials, they 
give with the deceafed a Hatchet , and a Flint with a piece 
of Steel , deeming , that at the Refurreflion they will in 
that darknefs tieed light to find the way , and an Inftrumeoc 
to cut down what may be in their way, efpecially among thick 
Woods. 
Eleventhly y He reckons up the Animals, Vegetables and Mi- 
nerals of LapUfid^ after he hath taken notice, what they want 
of them. They have no Horfes, AflTes, Oxen, Sheep, nor Goats 
of rheir own Country. The Rhee^^Dear ferves them inftead of 
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