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provisions, and Such necefiaries as they may have occafion for in 
their journey. In their return to the mountains in autumn, the 
rein-deer being in that feafon particularly fat, they kill as much 
venifon as they judge neceffary, and lay it up in thefe Store-houfes, 
where it remains during the winter, being intended as a Supply for 
themfelves and houfehold in the following Spring, when they Shall 
be on their progrefs to the coaft. 
In Spring and autumn, the earth being freed from its incum¬ 
brance of Snow, the mountain Laplander and his family travel on 
foot, his tent and the reft of his baggage being conveyed by the 
rein-deer; and if his wife have a child at the breafl, the infant is 
carried by her in the cradle already defcribed. 
When he removes in winter, he takes with him every thing 
belonging to his tent, even to the Stones which form his hearth; 
and this he does in order that he may meet with neither disap¬ 
pointment nor delay when arrived at the Spot whereon he intends 
to pitch his tent. For the brufhwood with which he carpets the 
infide of his tent, as well as firewood, he trufts to what he may be 
able to procure within a little diftance. To convey his tent in 
the winter feafon, he has a particular Sledge, to which he har- 
neffes one of his inferior deer; fo that it may be well fuppofed his 
tent and all that belongs to it, is of no great weight. 
The following is the order of the winter march : the hufband 
proceeds in the leading fledge, and is followed by the wife in the 
Second, which She drives herfelf; and if She give fuck, She has her 
child in the cradle by her fide, carefully wrapped up in furs, with 
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