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GENERAL REMARKS 
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SECTION XX. 
O/’ Lapla7id Courtjhip and Marriages. 
TT rarely happens that the natives of Norway intermarry with 
the Laplanders. The miffionary Leems obferves, that he never 
knew an inftance of the kind during his long acquaintance with 
Lapland. 
When a Laplander has an inclination to marry a young female 
of his nation, he communicates his wiffi to his own family, who 
then repair in a body to the’dwelling of the parents of the girl, 
taking with them a quantity of brandy to drink upon the oc- 
cafion, and a flight prefent for the young woman ; for inftance, 
a girdle ornamented with filver, a ring, or fomething of the like 
kind. When they come to the door of the hut in which fhe 
lives, the principal fpokefman enters firft, followed by the reft 
of the kindred, the fuitor waiting without until he fhall be in¬ 
vited to enter. As foon as they are come in, the orator fills out 
a bumper of brandy, which he offers to the girl’s father, who, if 
he accepts of it, fliews thereby that he approves of the match 
about to be moved for. The brandy is handed round, not only 
to 
