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Bond of Marriage facred, fteal not, are good to the Poor, and 
hofpitable enough to Strangers. They have good memories, 
and want not the wit of making themfelves all their own Tools, 
and other Ncceffaries ; ^viz^, their own Cloaths, ShoeSjVefiels, 
Inftruments for Carriage, Hunting,Fifhing,c^r. 
7hird/jf, He enquires into the. Origin of th^Ce Laplanders, 
and finds them to be an OfF-fpring and Colony of the Finlm- 
ders\ which he endeavours to prove, f omthe afiBnity there is 
in their Languages, and from the Habit of their body , their 
Manners, Cufioms, drc^ Here he affigns the feveral occafions 
and times of their feveral Tranfmigrations. 
Fourthly, He gives an Account of their ancient P^^i^;;, and 
modern Chriftim Religion , which latter the Swedes were the 
happy Inftruments of, under their King Ladislam, A. 1 277 5 
his Succeffors caufing fome Churches to be built amongft 
them, and the late Queen Chriftim erefting at once no lefs 
than four Churches ji, 1 640, in a part of Lapland , w here a 
Silver-Mine had been found out ; as her Roya! Father, Gufta- 
vm Adolphus, had fet up fome Schools amongft them about the 
year 1619, for the better education of Youth : Nocwithftand- 
ing which, there remain many Relicks of their ancient IdoIa« 
try, Superftition, Sacrifices, and Magic ; of which laft , our 
Author treats at large,efpecially of their Magical Drtm^v^Avch 
he defcribes firjl , as to its Fabrick and Ornaments , it being 
made either of Beech, Pinej or Firr, cleaved in the middle, and 
having that part, which is to ferve for the Drum , and is in a 
mannerof an Oval figure , excavated, and the plain fide of ic 
cover d with a siiin , on which are painted various Piftures, 
not only of their ancient Gods, and of Chrift, and his Apo- 
ftles, butalfoof the Sun and Stars, and various Beafls , Ser- 
pents, Lakes and Rivers; al! which are diftinguifhed and fe- 
parated into three feveral Regions by Lines 5 though others 
of thefe Drums be pictured otherwife. They have all of them 
2ir\ Index and an Hammer. The Index is a bundle of brafs or 
iron-Rings, of which the biggeft hath a hole in the middle, the 
fmaller ones being appendant to it ; though this a'fo varies in 
feveral places. The Hammer or Drum ftick is made of the 
Homof aRheen-Dear, wherewith they beat the Drum, to 
maketheaforefaid Rings 5 {aid on the top of theDium, move 
and 
