CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
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reft, the following is the order of the beds: if only one family oc¬ 
cupies the hut, the hufband and wife take up one fide with its 
three divifions ; the other fide is then aftigned to the children and 
fervants. If, on the other hand, the children and fervants are 
obliged to fleep on the fame fide with the mafter and miftrefs, the 
order of the beds is in that cafe thus arranged : the hufband and 
wife take the end fartheft from the door, which is efteemed the 
moft honourable, and called the bofshio-kiaejhie; the children fleep 
in the middle partition, or, as they name it, gajk-loido , next the 
fire-place; and the fervants occupy the divifion near the entrance, 
or the urfa-ltaejhie. 
If a miffionary happen to take up his night’s lodging with them, 
the beft or principal bed-chamber, the bofshio-kiaejhie, is given up 
to him, and the man and wife quit the hut, and this is the cafe as 
long as he chufes to ftay with them. 
When two families occupy the fame hut, the fire, the vacancy 
towards the door wherein is placed the wood, and the fpace oppo- 
fite to it at the further end for the pots and kettles are in common 
to both families: yet it very rarefy happens that any difpute or 
quarrel arifes betwixt them ; and thefe fimple people fet an ex¬ 
ample of cordiality and brotherly love to the inhabitants of cities 
and towns, who often confider the Laplanders as very little fupe- 
rior to favages. 
Their ffieep and cattle have a ftall affigned them near the en¬ 
trance of the hut, to which they repair by the fame door as the 
reft of the family, of which they conftitute a part not of the leaft 
confideration. 
