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The food of thefe people in fummer confirts of fifh dried in the 
fun. When the fifhery happens to be very produ&ive, they fell 
the furplus, or give it in exchange for meal, fait, or iron, which 
they want for domeftic purpofes. They like better to receive meal 
in exchange for their fifh, than to apply themfelves to the labour 
of the foil. Among them agriculture is {till in its primitive 
{late. They make no ufe of the plough, but work the ground by 
the force of their arms, though the parfon has been at much 
pains, but without fuccefs, to teach them the advantage of that 
implement. He ufed himfelf to yoke his cow to the plough, and 
cultivate a fmall field of his own, in order to fet an example to 
others. As foon as the fnow has begun to fall in autumn, they 
carefully obferve the traces of the bear, and go out to attack him 
in parties of three or four perfons. About the middle of Auguft, 
the feafon when the birds call; their feathers, they have confider- 
able fuccefs in the chafe of wild ducks and other aquatics, which 
they knock down with the oar, thefe animals being then unable 
to efcape from them by the aflirtance of their wings. 
When they have cut down their hay and fufiiciently dried it, 
they put it upon a fort of frame, raifed high above the ground, 
on four ports, fo as not only to fecure it from being humid by the 
overflowing of the river, but alfo from being carried away by the 
force of the current. Some of them poflefs rein-deer, which in 
fummer they intruft to the care of a Laplander, who conducts 
them into the vallies among the mountains, and watches and at¬ 
tends them in their pafture. 
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