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a circle and pafs the pipe from mouth to mouth, fo that every 
one receives four or five whiffs in turn, and all are equally grati¬ 
fied with the pleafure of fmoking. 
The conflant drink of the maritime and mountain Laplanders 
is cold water, procured in winter by diiPolving fnow, and this is 
their beverage as long as any fnow is to be had ; for this purpofe 
a quantity is always flanding in a copper vefTel in their huts or 
tents, as has been already mentioned. The mountain Laplander 
generally pitches his tent in places where water may be had, and 
by cutting through the ice contrives to fupply himfelf. 
The reader is now fully acquainted with Lapland cookery, in 
which, as has been obferved, the women never interfere. The 
hufband performs the office of cook in all its branches, and, as 
the diffies are never wafhed, the office of fcullion is not requifite 
In the economy of a Lapland houfehold. 
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