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favour of God by their Magic Drum , and they judge it very 
unlucky, if any Woman meet them when they go to that exercife, 
in which their chief Game are the Rheen-Dear and Bears; the 
former ferving them both for Horf^ and Meat and Cloaths;the 
latter, for Feafting and Rejoycing, there being nothing more 
glorious to a Laplander , than to have killed a Bear. Amongft 
thtiv Injiruments of Hunting,they uFe Bows and Arrows; their 
w^ooden Bows, having the two pieces they confift of, joyfied 
together by a glew, which they make of the skins of fuch Fiflies 
zs^tczW Femhes , laying thofe skins in warm-water , and 
keeping them there till the Scales come ofT 5 which when they 
are freed from, they boyl them in a little water, and fcum them 
wcII,often turning, beating and comminuting them with a fmall 
ftick, till they become a kind of pultis , which they pour out 
and let dry, and fo fet by for ufe ; wetting them with a little 
water, when any thing is to be glew'd therewith,as you do other 
G!cw. Befides this Hunting-trade, driven by their Men only, 
the fame imploy themfelves alio in other praftices, as in G^p/J*- 
^r^Cwhichno Women there muft meddle with,) in Building of 
Boats^ (which they do out of Pine-boards, joyning them toge- 
ther wich Wickers, without any Nails,j in Carf entry ^znd in ma- 
king of Sleds ytrunkj-i Chejls and Baskets^ and various Utenfils 
either of Wood or Bones, neceflfary in a Family. Thefe being 
the Imploymentsof Menonly , the Womens task is, to make 
Cloaths,Shoes,Gloves,and the furniture and jti^pings for their 
Rheen-Dear asalfj toSpin,which is to m^k^ a kind of thrtd 
not of FJax or Hemp (which is unkno;^^ them) but of the 
finews of the faid Dear^ which they c^y and beat, and fo pre* 
pare it to ferve them for Thred, ufedin fowing their Cloaih? 
Boots, Shoe> and Gloves ; which thred is of the length of the 
Nerves , it is made of. Though at times they make alfo Tome 
Yarn of Sheeps-wool, for the weaving of Ribbcnds and Gar- 
ters 5 fometimes aTo of white Hars-hair, for Hats and Sleeves. 
To their Women it belongs alfo to Weave , and to draw Wire • 
which latter is done by them, by fuperinducingTinupon the 
fined: above-mentionedThred made f finews;\A hich they do by 
melring pieces of Tinof anElUotig, and then drawing it with 
rheir teeth through bigger or rm?;.er ho!es of a Horn, and ma- 
king the wire flat on one fide by inferting a fmall bone into the 
hole, 
